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.Freshly released bodycam footage reveals authorities speaking with Colt Gray and also his father much more than a year prior to authorizations say the 14-year-old go as well as got rid of 4 folks and also wounded 9 others at Apalachee High School recently in Winder, Georgia.Colt Gray has actually been actually asked for along with 4 felony homicide matters. His papa, Colin Gray, was likewise arrested and demanded along with pair of matters of massacre in the 2nd degree, 4 counts of unintentional murder and eight counts of spitefulness to youngsters in the second degree. Both showed up prior to a court in the exact same Barrow Region court on Friday. The two stay behind bars.Colt Gray is actually implicated of eliminating fellow trainees Mason Schermerhorn and also Religious Angulo, both 14, and also mathematics educators Richard Aspinwall, 39, as well as Cristina Irimie, 53, on Wednesday at Apalachee High School.Colin Gray is the 1st parent in Georgia to become charged for an attack presumably performed through his little one, according to district attorneys. "These charges come from Mr. Gray intentionally enabling his boy, Colt, to posses a weapon," said Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey.More: Just how Georgia's Apalachee Secondary school shooting unfolded: Full timetable of eventsThe video shows the communication between the dad and also child and also deputies from the Jackson Area Officer's Office in May of 2023 in action to a recommendation about internet hazards to dedicate an university firing, featuring pictures of guns.The threats were posted to a profile on the social networking sites platform Dissonance that the FBI mapped to Colt Gray through an email address. Area authorizations advised local institutions as well as said to Colin Gray to keep his boy away from university, yet there was actually no probable trigger for an apprehension, depending on to the FBI's Atlanta georgia Division.In the video clip, acquired through United States TODAY, Gray said to investigators that the weapons in our home came to his son however said he was actually trying to teach him weapon security." He recognizes the significance of weapons and what they can possibly do and also how to utilize them and also not use them," mentioned the elder Gray, putting on a silver cross locket as well as securing a can as he spoke to cops outside his door." Our team do a great deal of shooting. Our team carry out a bunch of deer seeking. He shot his initial deer this year," Gray mentioned. He informed private detectives a photo on his phone showed his boy "along with blood on his cheeks from firing his very first deer," depending on to the video.The elder Gray stated he was actually "taken aback" due to the tip that his boy had actually brought in the threats, which both he as well as his son took it incredibly seriously.Vigil for Slain Educator: Georgia's Romanian community mourns teacher gotten rid of in Apalachee capturing" I'm mosting likely to be mad as heck if he performed and after that all the guns will certainly disappear." Months after the parents of Michigan college shooter Ethan Crumbley were sentenced in April to at the very least a years in prison each, Colin Gray's charges contribute to an expanding fad of parents held responsible when their kids dedicate mass shootings.Colt Gray linked to username referencing Sandy Hook shooterInvestigators additionally made note of the Dissonance account's username-- Russian characters that pointed out Lanza when converted, referencing Adam Lanza, the shooting who eliminated 26 folks at Sandy Hook Grade School in 2012. The teen denied making the online threats and also said he had final used a since-deleted Dissonance profile many months earlier. "The only trait I have is TikTok as well as I only take place there and also see videos," he said.Colin Gray informed the officers that his child was actually "acquiring badgered" at school.He stated that throughout a see to the university three times previously, he told the leader that his son "gets flustered struggling" as well as "does not definitely assume forthright" and also inquired the college to "put your branches around him, get him by means of seventh level." The police officer with the Jackson Area Constable's Workplace told Colin Gray the Disharmony account pinged to his outdated handle, according to the video.Gray reacted that he and also his kid moved after they were forced out from the family members's home. His other half, Marcee Gray, had taken the couple's two younger little ones and also transferred along with her mother, while he dealt with Colt in a rental property. "He strained initially with the splitting up plus all," Gray said.The video clip's release comes days after reports that Marcee Gray phoned the Apalachee Senior high school consultant about an "extreme emergency situation" as well as mentioned her child required to be found promptly on the morning of the firing. Gray made the 10-minute telephone call around half a hr before her kid allegedly fired, the Washington Post reported.Charles Polhamus, Colt Gray's gramps, told the Nyc Message that Marcee Gray hurried to the university after she obtained a text from her child reading, "I am actually sorry, mother." Brown and Polhamus decreased to comment to USA TODAY. Marcee Gray could possibly certainly not be actually grabbed comment.Cybele Mayes-Osterman is a breaking headlines press reporter for United States Today. Reach her on email at cmayesosterman@usatoday.com. Follow her on X @CybeleMO.