Gripping footage of the second cops missed their largest probability to cease Georgia faculty capturing suspect Colt Grey in his tracks has been launched, 5 days after the killing that left 4 lifeless.
Officers from Jackson County Sherrif’s Workplace visited the household house in Jefferson in Might final yr after they have been warned by the FBI that Colt had threatened a faculty capturing on the gaming platform Discord.
Police bodycam footage reveals Colt’s father casually sipping an vitality drink on the porch as he admits his then 13-year-old son has entry to unsecured weapons in the home behind him, however insists he might be ‘mad as hell’ if the claims become true.
Requested to summon Colt, he tells the cops to ‘instill in him.. That is no joke’.
However he holds his fingers out as he warns: ‘Now look he’ll get all pink face once you speak to him, simply.. Calm.’
Colin Grey appeared shocked to see police on the doorstep of his Jefferson house
He warned police to stay ‘calm’ when speaking to his son throughout their go to in Might final yr
Grey, 54, 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.
The daddy-of-three advised the officers he was outdated officers he was ‘in shock’ and ‘slightly p***ed off’ on the claims and claims he has had conversations along with his son about faculty shootings.
The footage opens with an officer asking him if his son performs ‘numerous laptop video games and stuff’.
‘Yeah he does, like on a regular basis,’ Grey replies.
‘Do you assume there’s one thing he would possibly wanna..?’ the cop asks.
‘I rattling positive need to know,’ Grey insists as he cracks open his can.
He nods when the officer asks him whether or not there are weapons in the home, and admits ‘they’re’, when requested if they are often accessed by Colt.
‘I imply there’s nothing loaded however they’re there,’ he explains. ‘We really do numerous capturing, we do numerous deer looking, he shot his first deer this yr.’
Challenged straight over threats of a faculty capturing, Grey replies: ‘I do not know something about him saying **** like that.
‘I’ll be mad as hell if he did, after which all of the weapons will go away. They usually will not be accessible to him.
Dressed casually in a saggy T-shirt and sweatpants the alleged killer lower a really completely different determine to the long-haired blond teenager seen in courtroom final week.
His father appeared eager to finish the interview as Colt denied making threats on-line
Sixteen months later academics Richard Aspinwall, 39 and Cristina Irimie, 53, have been to lose their lives alongside college students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, 14, within the deadliest faculty capturing within the state’s historical past
Grey lower a really completely different determine as he cried and rocked backwards and forwards in a courtroom look on Friday charged with 4 counts of manslaughter and two counts of second-degree homicide
Colt Grey too was unrecognizable as he made his first courtroom look on Friday
‘ I am making an attempt to be sincere with him, I am making an attempt to show him about firearms and security and do all of it and get him within the open air, like off his telephone.’
‘Get him away from these video video games,’ the cop giggles complacently.
‘Precisely proper,’ Colt’s father replies.
The highschool outdoors Winder stays closed 5 days after the deadliest faculty capturing within the state’s historical past claimed the lives of two 14-year-olds and two academics.
Grey, who appeared in the identical courthouse as his son of Friday deserves to die for turning his son right into a mass assassin, the boy’s grandfather Charlie Polhamus advised Dailymail.com on Monday.
Polhamus, the daddy of Grey’s former spouse Marcee, mentioned Colt ‘did not have any steerage’, and he was allowed to look at no matter he needed on TV and the web when staying along with his father.
‘He is a full-fledged narcissist and he lastly getting what he deserves’, he added.
Grey insisted he took an lively curiosity in his son as he was questioned by the police 16 months in the past.
‘I ask him ‘are you getting picked on at college?’ Grey mentioned.
‘He’s. He is getting picked on at college. And ‘is every little thing okay?’
‘That is why I hold going up there.’
Seconds later, Colt is seen rising nervously onto the porch after being summoned by his father.
Dressed casually in a saggy T-shirt and sweatpants he lower a really completely different determine to the long-haired blond teenager seen in courtroom final week.
However within the footage he was carrying an solely barely smaller model of the silver crucifix dangling on a series round his father’s neck.
‘Did your dad form of clarify every little thing to you?’ the cop asks him.
Colt has his fingers in his pockets and sways barely backward and forward as he begins to mumble a reply.
‘He mentioned one thing about..’
‘Capturing up a faculty,’ his father interjects his eyes centered on the bottom.
‘Did you say one thing about capturing up a faculty?’ the officer asks.
‘By no means, I simply advised him, I do not know what, possibly they misheard anyone else, I do not keep in mind saying..’ the boy replies.
‘Do you employ Discord?’ the officer inquires.
‘Discord?’
‘Sure sir,’ the officer says.
‘Um, I used to, I haven’t got it anymore.’
‘When was the final time you used it?’ he’s requested.
‘Um, possibly like a number of months in the past..’
He mentioned he had it deleted as a result of ‘I believe it received prefer it had been password pulled or one thing, like I had clicked on a hyperlink and anyone had..’
‘I imply I am not making an attempt to get anybody hemmed up or something,’ the officer says, ‘however that is some critical stuff.’
‘Oh he is aware of how critical it’s, belief me,’ Grey interjects.
Colt’s father Colin Grey (pictured left) is dealing with felony fees in reference to the capturing. Polhamus claims the boy’s dad ‘ruined’ Colt and wasn’t a ‘supportive’ father or mother
Colt insisted he by no means noticed threats of a capturing on the platform, and his father appeared eager to wind up the interview because the officer sums up what he has been advised.
‘He is telling me he did not,’ the cop says.
‘Yeah,’ says Grey, now leaning on a wall.
‘He is telling me he cannot keep in mind something like that?’
‘Yep,’ the daddy confirms.
‘I take you at your phrase,’ the cop tells Colt. ‘In the event you look me within the eye and inform me that is what you are telling me?’
Colt nods because the officer admits: ‘I’ve received no selection however to take you at your phrase proper now.
‘However like I used to be telling your dad if we discover out in any other case then it is a completely different story.’
‘It is a actually completely different story,’ his father growls.
Colt is being tried as an grownup and was advised 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 fees.
The daddy and son each appeared at Barrow County Superior Court docket on Friday, in shackles and handcuffed on the entrance of their physique.
Colt reportedly advised police ‘I did it’ when learn his Miranda rights after his arrest on Wednesday.
The teenager, wearing a inexperienced T-shirt and gray sweatpants, saved his head down, along with his hair overlaying his face, and spoke softly solely to Choose Currie Mingledorff, replying ‘sure sir’ when requested to substantiate his title.
In the meantime his father, Colin, cried as he appeared shortly after his son in the identical courtroom, rocking backwards and forwards.
Colt was launched to weapons by his father, who claims he took him looking out of concern he may very well be caught up in a faculty capturing and unable to defend himself. Colt is pictured in January 2023 with a 450 Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that he used to kill a deer
For the reason that lethal rampage, it has emerged that Colt, pictured as a toddler, had a seemingly unstable childhood. His mom Marcee (left) has a prison report spanning greater than 17 years and his father Colin (proper) was allegedly ‘dysfunctional’ and may very well be heard ‘screaming and hollering every single day’
Grey shuffled in carrying a prison-issued striped shirt and tracksuit, in shackles like his son.
He said his title in a croaky voice, confirming his age, and that he was in a position to learn and write.
Choose Mingledorff suggested the elder Grey that he may resist 30 years in jail for every felony homicide rely, 10 years for every involuntary manslaughter fees and cruelty to youngsters – the utmost totaling 180 years.
‘He is getting what he deserves. My grandson is getting what he deserves, too,’ Polhamus mentioned.
‘Vengeance is mine, say the lord.’
