The ‘evil’ father of Georgia college taking pictures suspect Colt Grey deserves to die for turning his son right into a mass assassin, the boy’s grandfather has stated.
Colin Grey faces 4 counts of manslaughter and two counts of second-degree homicide amid claims he gave his son the AR-15-style rifle used within the bloodbath at Apalachee Excessive Faculty on Wednesday.
Grey’s ex-father-in-law stated the 14-year-old was ‘pushed by his father to do what he did’ because it emerged that Colt’s grandmother visited the varsity exterior Winder simply hours earlier than the taking pictures to debate his habits.
‘Spending 11 years with that son of a bitch screaming and hollering every single day, it will possibly have an effect on anyone,’ Charles Polhamus, 81, informed the NY Submit.
‘He wants the demise penalty.’
Colin Grey, 54, the daddy of alleged Georgia college shooter Colt Grey shook in courtroom on Friday as he appeared to face 4 counts of manslaughter and two counts of second-degree homicide
Colt Grey, 14, was ‘pushed’ by his abusive father to hold out the bloodbath that left 4 useless, his grandfather Charles Polhamus claimed
Grey, 54, appeared in courtroom on Friday after he was arrested over his function within the taking pictures that killed two college students and two academics, and left 9 injured.
The alleged gunman’s dad and mom cut up in 2022 after they had been evicted from their dwelling and Colt was dwelling with Grey when the taking pictures occurred.
‘Colt has to pay for what he did, however I am telling you, he was pushed, no query in my thoughts,’ Polhamus stated from his dwelling in Fitzgerald.
‘Colt is like loads of younger youngsters today with the tablets and a few of the rubbish they pull up, the blood and all of the preventing.
‘For those who do not assume that has an affect on younger youngsters, you are lacking the boat, and that was additionally a part of Colt’s downside.
‘It is a part of it — and dwelling with a dysfunctional dad who was a screamer and a hollerer.
‘No query about it. Previous to going by means of this, he was a superb child. I’ll preach that ceaselessly.’
Polhamus stated his spouse Deborah had gone to the varsity a day earlier than the taking pictures as household concern about Colt mounted.
‘They had been having some issues with him not going to highschool, and this type of factor,’ he informed CBS.
Colt Grey’s mom Marcee was beforehand ordered by a courtroom to have solely restricted contact with Colt’s father after she pleaded responsible in December to a cost of household violence
Mason Schermerhorn, 14, an autistic scholar at Apalachee Excessive Faculty, was the primary sufferer to be recognized. He was amongst 4 individuals killed within the mass taking pictures
Heartbreaking messages between a scholar at Apalachee Excessive Faculty and his mother have revealed the second youngsters discovered there was an lively shooter
Lecturers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie had been additionally killed within the tragedy
‘My spouse had gone up there the day earlier than and met with the academics to get him some.’
Polhamus spoke out after it was claimed that his daughter, Marcee Grey, known as her son’s college to warn them of an ‘excessive emergency’ minutes earlier than the taking pictures began.
‘I informed them it was an excessive emergency and for them to go instantly and discover [my son] to verify on him,’ the mom informed her sister in textual content messages seen by the Washington Submit.
The outlet reported {that a} name log from the household’s shared telephone plan exhibits Grey made a 10-minute name to the varsity at 9.50am on Wednesday, about half an hour earlier than Colt allegedly opened fireplace.
She then acquired in her automobile and began driving towards the varsity, greater than three hours away.
However about half-way there she discovered that the tragedy she was racing to stop had already taken place.
‘I used to be the one which notified the varsity counselor at the highschool,’ he informed her sister.
Additional textual content exchanges reported from Marcee’s sister confirmed that Colt’s college and household had been additionally in touch concerning his deteriorating psychological well being not less than per week earlier than the taking pictures.
Georgia college shooter Colt Grey made his first courtroom look on Friday
Colin Grey appeared shortly after his son in the identical courtroom
In a single textual content, Brown reportedly informed a relative that Colt was having ‘homicidal and suicidal ideas.’
‘He should not have a gun, and he ought to’ve been in THERAPY months in the past,’ she added within the textual content.
Brown stated that her nephew had spent months ‘begging’ for psychological well being assist, however the ‘adults round him failed him.’
Colt Grey’s AR-15-style rifle may be seen within the hall of Apalachee Excessive Faculty
Marcee was beforehand ordered by a courtroom to have solely restricted contact with Colt’s father after she pleaded responsible in December to a cost of household violence.
Months earlier in Could 2023, the household had been visited by native legislation enforcement after receiving an FBI tip about threats to hold out a faculty taking pictures.
Colt denied making the threats, and Grey informed cops that though he stored searching rifles within the dwelling his son was not allowed to make use of them unsupervised.
However the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stated the boy’s father allowed him entry to the AR-style rifle used within the taking pictures, as investigators probe claims it was gifted him as a Christmas current in December final yr.
Polhamus stated his former son-in-law price the household their ‘half-million-dollar farm’ after spiraling into drug habit following a again harm.
And he stated his daughter was dragged into her then husband’s habit however had at all times remained dedicated to their three youngsters.
‘She is an efficient individual and a mother,’ he insisted. ‘However I am again to what I stated about narcissists: They will change anyone.
‘Marcee by no means did something to Colt. All she did is assist him out.’
He additionally stated his grandson despatched her a message on the morning of the taking pictures, telling her ‘I am sorry Mother’.
‘Colt did not trigger that to occur. He did it,’ Polhamus stated.
‘He did not get up someday and determine I’ll kill individuals. No, he did not do this. He got here out of an surroundings.
‘For those who step in a wad of s***, what occurs to your foot? You step in a wad of s***.
‘That is no totally different. To reside in that for 11 years, my daughter and her youngsters.
‘For those who reside in that type of relationship for 11 years you are not going to remain steady.’
Individuals wept at a vigil for the victims of Georgia’s deadliest ever college taking pictures
A number of classmates shared related tales describing how Colt quietly slunk out of algebra class at round 10am on Wednesday, earlier than he returned minutes later with a gun.
One other scholar, Bri Jones, 14, stated she virtually opened the door to Grey however stopped herself ‘as he was pulling his gun out.’
‘I froze up, like I froze up and I stated ‘no’ to myself,’ Jones informed CNN. ‘He would have gotten each single one in every of us in that class.’
Jones stated she virtually opened the door, however stopped herself because of a tip from her mom.
‘I at all times look out the door earlier than I open it… it is a behavior my mother taught me,’ she stated.
Though she noticed the gun, Jones stated her trainer urged her to open the door ‘as a result of she did not know he had a gun as a result of she was at her desk.’
‘She was going to stroll over there, open it, and I used to be like, ‘no, he has a gun’,’ Jones recalled.
‘The shooter, he regarded up,’ Jones continued. ‘He was taking a look at me, my trainer, after which someone was within the corridor. He turned his head, and he simply began taking pictures.
‘As soon as he began taking pictures, it is like he stored going, it was so many gunshots after gunshots… It felt like he was simply taking pictures ceaselessly – after which prefer it stopped.’
College students stated when Grey didn’t enter his personal classroom, he opened fireplace into the one subsequent door as their door was open.
At that second, trainer Richard Aspinwall was shot useless in entrance of his horrified class, which scholar Malaysia Mitchell stated left her traumatized.
‘We needed to drag our trainer’s physique absolutely into the classroom,’ she informed CNN. ‘We heard him take his final breath.’
Fourteen-year-old college students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo additionally died in Georgia’s deadliest ever college taking pictures, together with math trainer Christina Irimie, 53.
‘He pulled the triggers,’ Polhamus stated. ‘He killed individuals and he is my grandson, and it breaks my rattling coronary heart.
Colt is being tried as an grownup and was informed at his courtroom look on Friday that he may spend the remainder of his life behind bars for the violent current.
His father faces eight counts of cruelty to youngsters in addition to his homicide and manslaughter prices.
He is getting what he deserves. My grandson is getting what he deserves, too,’ Polhamus stated.
‘Vengeance is mine, say the lord.’
