Apalachee High School shooting victims identified, student suspect was flagged to FBI last year
The four victims who were killed Wednesday in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia, have been identified as it has emerged that the suspected student gunman was flagged to the FBI last year.
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A law enforcement expert discussed what Georgia agencies are lasered in on as they continue to investigate the tragic Apalachee High School shooting.
Matthew Fagiana, a retired police sergeant and law enforcement consultant, told Fox News Digital that Georgia's top law enforcement agencies are continuing to investigate Colt Gray's motivation while simultaneously working on ways to prevent future mass shootings in the community.
The suspected shooter, 14-year-old Gray, opened fire at the high school, killing 2 teachers and 2 students.
Fagiana said that law enforcement is focused on the 14-year-old's past and if he had any known interactions with the victims. The law enforcement expert also said that investigative units would likely meticulously comb through Gray's home as well as the high school.
"I can only assume that the crime scene at the school is quite large," he said. "Those types of scenes require a very meticulous examination and collection of evidence – things like logging locations of evidence, spent casings."
Fagiana said that investigators are attempting to answer what prompted the suspected shooter to open fire.
"One important piece of the suspect being taken into custody will be the interviews he provides to investigators," he said. "Any time we have someone who commits a mass killing, one of the most important questions we are trying to answer is the 'why.'"
"And because many school shooters either kill themselves, or are killed by law enforcement to prevent further harm to others, we are often left without the ‘why’ and can only develop theories based on their history and any evidence they leave behind," he said.
Read the full article about the shooting suspect by Sarah Rumpf-Whitten.
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Georgia is one of at least 42 states and Washington, D.C., to have laws allowing parents to be held criminally responsible for their children's actions.
This comes as Colin Gray, 54, faces multiple charges over the alleged actions of his son, Colt Gray, 14, who is accused of killing four people and injuring nine others in a shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday. The charges against Colin Gray include four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
Authorities said the elder Gray knowingly allowed his son to possess a weapon.
The parental responsibility laws vary from state to state, with some focusing on parental negligence in preventing a child's access to firearms, while others address broader forms of delinquent behavior, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
Georgia's law allows for parents to face criminal liability if they are found to have contributed to their child's delinquent behavior through neglect or failure to properly supervise.
If a parent in Georgia knowingly allows a child to gain access to firearms or engages in reckless behavior that leads to harm, for example, they can face criminal charges, including involuntary manslaughter or child cruelty.
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The Georgia Senate Safe Firearm Storage Study Committee discussed what measures should be implemented to reduce the chance of another school shooting following Wednesday's shooting at Apalachee High School.
"When it comes to these bills, we are trying to put up safeguards to make it, whether you are a bad actor or have a mental health issue either way, we can make it difficult for you to have a weapon in Georgia," Democrat state Rep. Yasmine Neal said.
Members of the committee pointed out that state lawmakers earmarked additional money for security at schools last year, including money for school resource officers.
The committee is currently considering what can be done to reduce gun violence while still protecting the Second Amendment, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
"The human mind, we never know what's going to happen one day to the next, but we can control that weapon, we can secure it, and we can lock it up," Democrat state Sen. Emanuel Jones said. "We can hold those who own that weapon responsible for the use of that weapon. There are things that we can do."
Georgia authorities have released audio from the 2023 visit to the home of the alleged Georgia high school shooter after an anonymous report to the FBI over online threats about "possibly threatening to shoot up a middle school" in a group chat on messaging app Discord surfaced.
Jackson County, Georgia, sheriff's officers spoke face-to-face with the boy who is now charged with felony murder in the deaths of four at Apalachee High School in Winder on Wednesday.
The sheriff's officers described their interactions in a detailed investigation report from May 21, 2023, when suspect Colt Gray was 13 years old, after being tipped off by the FBI about a threat on the messaging app Discord, popular with some video gamers, to shoot up a middle school.
When the police begin questioning Colin Gray, the father shares more about Gray's home life and the accusation, saying this visit is b*****t and a terrorist threat.
"He's going through a lot...very difficult for him to go to school and not get picked on," Colin said.
Colin tells the officer that he and Colt's mom got divorced and that they had been evicted.
"He struggled at first with the separation. I've been taking him to school. He goes to Jefferson Middle school. He's been doing really good," Colin explained.
The officer acknowledges the severity of the visit and Colin agrees and says that Colt "knows how serious it is, trust me."
Read the full article about the shooting suspect by Stepheny Price.
A mugshot of Colin Gray. (GBI)
Georgia authorities released a mugshot of the father of the teen who allegedly killed four people at a high school.
Colin Gray, 54, faces multiple charges over the alleged actions of his son, Colt Gray, 14, including four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
On Thursday, authorities said the elder Gray knowingly allowed his son to possess a weapon.
He is being held at the Barrow County jail.
Flowers are placed outside the entrance to Apalachee High School on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 in Winder, Ga., a day after deadly shootings at the school. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)
The charges against the father of the suspected shooter accused of killing four people at a Georgia high is an example of a new approach by authorities to curb similar incidents, a legal expert told Fox News Digital.
Colin Gray, 54, has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children. On Thursday, authorities said the charges are connected to the possession of a weapon by Gray's son, Colt Gray, who allegedly killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School and wounded nine others.
“This was done by authorities in Michigan who successfully prosecuted the parents of a teen who killed four students using a firearm his parents purchased for him,” said David Gelman, a criminal defense attorney and former deputy district attorney.
Jennifer and James Crumbley were convicted in April of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced 10 years in prison after prosecutors said they kept an unsecured gun at home and showed indifference toward their son's mental health. Ethan Crumbley killed four students at a high school in 2021.
Colin Gray's case is different because he also faces murder charges, said Gelman.
“The charge of murder may be challenging to prove as this charge contemplates malice aforethought, as opposed to involuntary manslaughter which does not require a specific intention to cause death,” he said.
The charges against the father of a Georgia teenager accused of killing four people at his high school are “directly” connected to letting the boy possess a weapon, authorities said Thursday.
Chris Hosey, the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said Colin Gray, 54, "knowingly allowed" his son, Colt Gray, 14, to have a weapon.
The elder Gray has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
In addition to killing two students and two teachers, Colt Gray wounded nine others – two teachers and seven students, authorities said at a news conference.
Those injured are expected to recover, said Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith.
“A young person brought a gun into a school and committed an evil act and he took lives and he injured many other people — not only physically but mentally,” he said.
The father of the 14-year-old gunman who allegedly killed four people at a Georgia high school has been arrested, authorities said Thursday.
Colin Gray, age 54, father of alleged shooter Coly Gray, was taken into custody and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of Cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
Authorities will hold a new conference at 8 p.m. ET.
Jackson County, Georgia, officers in 2023 spoke face-to-face with the boy who is now charged with felony murder in the deaths of four at Apalachee High School in Winder on Wednesday.
The sheriff's officers described their interactions in a detailed investigation report from May 21, 2023, when suspect Colt Gray was 13 years old, after being tipped off by the FBI about a threat on the messaging app Discord of a threat to shoot up a middle school. Discord is popular with some video gamers.
Gray said he had previously deleted a Discord account and denied that he would make such a threat, "even in a joking manner," according to the report.
Gray's father, Colin, told the officers that he had hunting rifles in the house but that his son "does not have unfettered access to them." The two guns were both "locked away," the father told them. Authorities have said the shooting was carried out with an AR-style rifle.
"I urged Colin to keep his firearms locked away, and advised him to keep Colt out of school until this matter could be resolved," investigator Daniel Miller Jr. wrote.
Jackson County investigators could not substantiate the Discord threat, which came from a user profile that spelled Lanza in Russian, according to the report. Adam Lanza perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
The officer also found that the information sent to the FBI was communicated via various IP addresses across the world: Palmdale, California; Los Angeles; and Cockburn, Australia.
He also reviewed the email address and phone number related to the case as well as the user profile linked to the threats.
Read the full article about the shooting suspect by Timothy H.J. Nerozzi.
One of the people who was shot and killed at a Georgia high school Wednesday was a minor of Mexican nationality, officials in that country said Thursday.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that personnel from the Mexican consulate in Atlanta are in contact with relatives of the unarmed victim and with U.S. authorities.
“The consulate maintains contact with the authorities to confirm the health status and nationality of the hospitalized people, and to rule out that there are more Mexican people affected,” the agency said.
“Likewise, the consulate maintains contact with the authorities to confirm the health status and nationality of the hospitalized people, and to rule out the possibility of more Mexican people being affected,” the ministry added.
The ministry didn't name the victim who had Mexican nationality. They were identified by authorities as Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both aged 14 who attended the school; and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39; and 53-year-old Christina Irimie.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp praised first responders and others involved in Wednesday's deadly school shooting.
“In the midst of the unthinkable, our everyday heroes are prepared to run into danger to protect others," he wrote on X. "The bravery of law enforcement officers, first responders, and civilian Georgians was on full display yesterday, and I want to commend their swift and selfless actions.”
The alleged shooter who killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder surrendered to a school resource officer after opening fire, authorities said.
Kemp also ordered flown on state building to be lowered to half-staff honor the victims: Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both aged 14 who attended the school; and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39; and 53-year-old Christina Irimie.
President Joe Biden speaks at the Vernon Electric Cooperative Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Westby, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
President Biden on Thursday said parents who give their children access to firearms that are not locked up should be held accountable, a day after a gunman killed four people at a Georgia high school.
Biden was in Westby, Wisconsin to tout his economic agenda when he remarked about the deadly shooting at Apalachee High School.
The 14-year-old alleged shooter killed two students and two teachers. He is charged with multiple counts of murder.
“Once again, what do we need them for in terms of domestic use?,” Biden said. “There are too many people who are able to access guns that should be able to. So let's require safe storage of firearms.”
“I know I have mine locked up, but how could you have an assault rifle, a weapon in a house not locked up, and knowing your kid knows where it is?” he added. “(We) Got a hold parents accountable if they let their child have access to these guns."
He then called for stronger background checks and ending immunity for gun makers.
“As a nation, we cannot continue to accept the carnage of gun violence," he said. "I’m a gun owner. I believe strongly in the amendment. We need … more than thoughts and prayers.”
Mugshot of Colt Gray, 14
The Barrow County Sheriff's Office has released mugshots of the suspected Georgia high school shooter 14-year-old Colt Gray.
Gray, of Winder, surrendered when engaged by School Resource Officers inside the school after opening fire and killing four people and wounding nine others Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School.
"The investigation into yesterday’s shooting at Apalachee High School is continuing," authorities said.
"This is day 2 of a very complex investigation and the integrity of the case is paramount. We ask for the public’s patience as we work to ensure a successful prosecution and justice for the victims," the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said earlier Thursday.
Gray's court appearance is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Image of David Phenix posted by daughter, Katie Phenix
One of the victims of the Georgia high school shooting is recovering following surgery Thursday morning, according to a update from his daughter.
"He was sent off to osteopathic surgery around 8AM today and we just met with the surgeon who worked on his hip + ankle— ALL GOOD NEWS," Katie Phenix, daughter of David Phenix, shared on Facebook.
"He will remain in the ICU for at least another day or two. There’s a pretty long recovery period, but things are lookin’ good," Katie wrote.
David was one of the nine wounded Wednesday morning when alleged shooter14-year-old Colt Gray opened fire inside Apalachee High School. Four people were killed in total including two teachers and two 14-year old students.
"Thank you for all the calls, texts, and messages. Our hearts hurt for our community. Please make sure to share the love with those affected by this crazy incident. Much love," Katie said.
Mason Schermerhorn last texted his mom from the restroom before he was discovered as one of the four killed in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, a chaplain and youth minister who tried to help find the teen said.
Ronald Clark had stopped at a store on his way home Wednesday morning, when he learned of the shooting from his wife via phone call.
He rushed to the scene, and quickly offered his services to law enforcement at the command post. He was instructed to assist crews on the investigative side.
About an hour later, he said he started seeing the students, who were "hurt."
"You want to have the arms big enough to grab everybody, but it's only so much that you can do," he said, calling the situation "challenging."
He described the look on victims' faces as "shock," and said those who provided their testimonies to him in an attempt to cope were "strong."
About 30 minutes later, Clark said he began assisting Schermerhorn's mother, who is his coworker, with trying to find him.
"It was hard, because we were just talking about her kids on Tuesday this week," Clark said. "She was saying that the bond and the connection she has with her kids is unbreakable."
Read the full article about Mason Schermerhorn by Pilar Arias.
From left to right: Math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, along with Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, officials say.
Autopsies of the four victims killed during a rampage by a student at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia will be performed Thursday, authorities said.
The victims who were shot and killed were identified Wednesday as: Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both aged 14 who attended the school; and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39; 53-year-old Christina Irimie.
The alleged shooter , Colt Gray, 14, has been charged with multiple counts of murder and will appear in court Friday morning.
People attend a vigil at Jug Tavern Park following a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, U.S. September 4, 2024. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
The community of Winder, Georgia will honor the victims of Wednesday's deadly shooting that killed two students and two teachers at a local high school on Friday.
The event, titled “A Light in the Dark,” will be held at 6 p.m. at Jug Tavern Park.
“This event will pay respect with a memorial service for those who lost their lives and for the families affected,” the city said in a Facebook post.
Grief counselors will be present for those who need support, the post states.
The city also held a vigil at the park hours after Wednesday's shooting.
Flowers sit against the Apalachee High school sign following a school shooting yesterday that left four dead and multiple more injured. Thursday, September 5, 2024 (Ben Hendren for Fox News Digital)
A gunman opened fire at Apalachee High School in Barrow County, Georgia, on Wednesday morning and killed four people, including two students and two teachers.
Authorities were first notified of an active incident when Apalachee High School faculty and staff deployed Centegix CrisisAlert ID technology, equipped with an unobtrusive panic button, to alert officials by pressing down on the badge.
"All of our teachers are armed with a form of an ID called Centegix," Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told reporters during a Wednesday evening press conference.
"Centegix alarms us and alerts the law enforcement office after buttons are pressed on an ID, and it alerts us that there is an active situation at the school for whatever reason."
Centegix, a cloud-based wearable safety technology company, enables rapid notification of emergency situations and response by local law enforcement.
The safety solutions company, "was founded on the idea that technology can create safer, more secure environments. Our safety solution uses market-defining technology that delivers the functionality, connectivity, and accessibility needed to stand up to real-world emergencies," according to the brand's website.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said during a press conference Wednesday night, "The protocols at this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy than what we had here today."
Read the full article about Centegix from Gabriele Regalbuto.
Police gather outside Apalachee High School following the shooting on Wednesday, Sept. 4. (AP/Mike Stewart)
Apalachee High School shooting suspect Colt Gray has been charged with multiple counts of felony murder ahead of his first court appearance Friday, officials say.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says "the autopsies of the four victims" who were killed in the Apalachee High School shooting "will be performed today at the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office."
"The investigation into the shooting at Apalachee High School is still active and ongoing," it added. "This is day 2 of a very complex investigation and the integrity of the case is paramount. We ask for the public’s patience as we work to ensure a successful prosecution and justice for the victims."
Gray's court appearance is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Apalachee High School's football stadium is pictured on Thursday, Sept. 5. (AP/Mike Stewart)
Monroe Area High School, which was set to face off against Apalachee High School in a football game this weekend, announced Thursday that the game has been canceled in the wake of the mass shooting.
“Monroe Area High School stands with Apalachee High School and our thoughts are them with this time,” the school wrote on Facebook.
“The football game versus Apalachee for this week has been canceled,” it added.
The game was supposed to happen at Apalachee High School on Saturday, Sept. 6.
One of the victims who died in Thursday’s shooting has been identified as Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old husband and father of two young daughters.
Aspinwall taught math at Apalachee High School and was the football team’s defensive coordinator.
Al New speaks to Fox News Digital outside Apalachee High School on Thursday, Sept. 5. (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox News Digital)
Al New, a Billy Graham Crisis Counselors chaplain who arrived at Apalachee High School on Thursday, told Fox News Digital that he is there to pray with the students and families of those affected and to “give them hope.
“Our main goal here as chaplains – and we are crisis management-trained chaplains -- is to come into the crowd of those who are hurting and grieving from what took place, especially here at this school, and we will come in, we will just stand beside them and lift them up, encourage them and pray with them to try to get through what they are going through” he said.
“I’ve been doing this since 2005 and I’ve seen a lot of things, and when you walk up and you just ask ‘can I pray with you?’ immediately you can see the difference in their demeanor, and they want that prayer, because they don’t have anything else to stand on but that prayer. So that is what breaks our hearts, and that is why we are committed to doing what we do,” New added.
Michelle Ramirez speaks outside Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Thursday, Sept. 5. (Sarah Rumpf-Whitten/Fox News Digital)
The mother of a student at Apalachee High Schoo l told reporters Thursday that “I cried” and “I was going 95 miles per hour to get here yesterday because I thought my daughter was injured” in the mass shooting.
Michelle Ramirez, speaking near a memorial set up outside the high school in Winder, Georgia, said “Our hearts are aching for the families. It’s really sad.”
“No one deserves to die like that. The school is meant for kids to come to learn and hang out with their friends, to not get killed,” she said.
“We have to send our babies to school not knowing if it is going to be their last day. And it is scary, really scary,” Ramirez added.
Cars are parked on the sides of a road as law enforcement officers work at the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. (Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage)
The FBI claims the bureau did not directly investigate the suspect behind the tragic Georgia high school mass shooting this week.
The student shooter accused of opening fire at Apalachee High School on Wednesday was anonymously reported to the FBI in 2023 over online threats and "possibly threatened to shoot up a middle school" in a group chat on messaging app Discord.
Fox News Digital spoke with representatives of the FBI in Atlanta, who said the bureau had not interview the suspect and had not gone to his home. Instead, the FBI provided the information from the anonymous tip to the Jackson County Sheriff.
Local law enforcement officers with the sheriff's department conducted a deeper investigation and interviewed the father of the suspect, documented in a report that could not substantiate the threats.
During the investigation, the suspect "expressed concern that someone is accusing him of threatening to shoot up a school, stating that he would never say such a thing, even in a joking manner," according to a report from the interviews.
The officer investigating the anonymous tips found that the information sent to the FBI was communicated via various IP addresses across the world: Palmdale, California; Los Angeles, California; and Cockburn, Australia. He also reviewed the email address and phone number related to the case — as well as the user profile linked to the threats.
The profile name, written in Russian, referenced the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
"[The Apalachee suspect] stated he stopped using Discord because too many people kept hacking his account, and he was afraid someone would use his information for nefarious purposes," according to the report.
Colt Gray, the 14-year-old accused of killing four people and injuring nine others during the shooting at Apalachee High School, will make his first court appearance Friday, according to media reports.
The appearance will happen at 8:30 a.m. local time, Fox5 Atlanta reports.
Gray, who is currently being held at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, will be appearing virtually in Barrow County Superior Court, a Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice spokesperson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Officials previously have said Gray will face murder charges.
Videos taken inside Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, following Wednesday's mass shooting show a sense of calm amid the chaos.
Sophomore Alexsandra Romero, 15, was sheltering with classmates inside a classroom when she caught footage of law enforcement officers entering the room and directing them down a corridor to exit.
"Single file line down this aisle right here after this deputy," an officer is heard saying. "Hurry up now, come on, let's go. We got a whole school to get evacuated, people, come on now."
Romero told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution she thought what was happening was a drill.
"I can just remember my hands were shaking," Romero said. "I felt bad because everybody was crying, everybody was trying to find their siblings."
Another video captured by the teen on her way out of the school shows a body covered by a sheet with blood surrounding it and firearms on the floor.
Students kneel in front of a makeshift memorial in front of Apalachee High School on Thursday, Sept. 5, in Winder, Ga. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
Apalachee High School student Isaac Sanguma has said in an interview that Christina Irimie, the math teacher killed in the shooting Wednesday, was a “real nice” person who would “really make you feel welcome.”
Sanguma, speaking to CBS News, said on the morning of the shooting, Irimie, his fourth period teacher, “walked up to me and I had threw up yesterday, so she asked me if I was OK.”
“I didn’t know that was going to be my last time seeing her and talking to her,” he said.
Sanguma described Irimie as being “real nice” to students and as a teacher would often “tell random jokes.”
“You could get a question wrong on the board and she would not make you feel dumb, she would really make you feel welcome,” Sanguma said.
The student said he was going to use the bathroom around the time the shooting started unfolding.
“I think I heard a ‘boom, boom,’ but at first it didn’t come to my mind that it was a gunshot, my instinct was to run back to class,” he told CBS News. “It didn’t feel real.”
A video taken from inside Apalachee High School on Wednesday shows a gun lying on the floor.
The weapon could be seen as students were moving through a hallway to evacuate the school.
Four people were killed and nine others were injured in the shooting on Wednesday in Winder, Georgia.
Other footage that has emerged in the wake of the shooting shows police officers evacuating students from inside of a classroom, with one instructing them to walk in a single-file line.
A law enforcement officer works near the scene of a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Sept. 4, 2024. (Reuters/Elijah Nouvelage)
A law enforcement expert weighed in following the tragic mass shooting at a small Georgia high school that left two students and two teachers dead and wounded nine others on Wednesday.
Matthew Fagiana, a retired police sergeant and law enforcement consultant, told Fox News Digital that responding officials are zeroing in on the 14-year-old suspect's past and motive at the start of the investigation.
"Things such as the timeline of the incident. A chronological history of the suspect leading up to the shooting, a deep look into the suspect's past for things such as interactions with the victims, the existence of any indications of violent behavior, statements or social media posts that could help them develop a motive, and recent internet history," he said.
"And that, of course, only scratches the surface of the investigation," he added.
Fagiana noted that responding agencies, including the FBI's Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff's Office, are combing the scene of Apalachee High School to construct an "accurate picture" of the suspect's pathway through the school.
Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum tells Fox News Digital that “approximately 8” of her personnel responded Wednesday to the Apalachee High School shooting in Winder, Georgia.
The Sheriff’s Office previously posted a statement from the FBI’s Atlanta Division saying the suspected shooter has been on its radar as a possible threat since last year after receiving information about “online threats” that contained images of guns.
“The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them,” the statement read. “The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject.”
Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
A video has captured the moment law enforcement evacuated students from Apalachee High School in the wake of Wednesday’s deadly shooting.
“Single file line down this aisle right here, after this deputy. Hurry up now, come on let’s go... we got a whole school to get evacuated people, come on now,” a voice is heard instructing the students.
The person filming the video then walks past an armed officer standing at the entrance of a classroom.
In the hallway of the building, students can be seen walking in a line.
A spokesperson for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation tells Fox News Digital that the parents of suspected Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray "have been cooperative up until this point."
The comment came in response to a question regarding whether authorities are investigating Gray's parents in the wake of Wednesday's attack, which left four dead and nine others injured.
Fox News' Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
Richard "Ricky" Aspinwall, 39, is survived by his wife and their two young daughters.
A beloved football coach, who was among four victims killed in a high school shooting in Barrow County, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, was remembered as a "leader of men" who passed on the "old-school ways" of the game to the children he coached.
Ricky Aspinwall, a 39-year-old husband and father of two young daughters, taught math at Apalachee High School, where he was also the football team’s defensive coordinator.
Mike Hancock, the school’s head football coach, told the Athens Banner-Herald that Aspinwall was "a great dad" who loved his wife and their two daughters and was also respected in the game of football.
"He worked his tail off," Hancock said. "He coached old-school ways, but he loved those kids. It's heartbreaking really for our kids, but for his wife and his two daughters…"
Aspinwall was killed when the alleged 14-year-old shooter opened fire inside the school. Math teacher Christina Irimie and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, were also killed. Authorities said nine others were wounded in the shooting.
Students walk off campus with their families after a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)
The mother of a student at Apalachee High School told The New York Times that she received a text from her daughter Wednesday that read “Mom, I heard gunshots. I’m scared. Please come get me.”
However, Anetra Pattman, who teaches social sciences at an alternative school in Barrow County, had to remain calm and stay with her own class, the newspaper adds.
“At that moment, the primary thing was continuing this communication with my daughter, but now I’m also responsible for keeping my other children safe,” Pattman said.
The teacher told the newspaper that her school went into a lockdown before she was reunited with her 14-year-old daughter Macey later that afternoon.
Georgia State patrol vehicles are seen moving toward Apalachee High School on Wednesday following the shooting. (AP/Mike Stewart)
The student shooter accused of opening fire at Apalachee High School has been booked into the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, according to WSB-TV.
Colt Gray, 14, is accused of killing four people and injuring nine others during the attack.
The Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center is located about an hour north of Apalachee High School in Winder.
Gray, who is a student at Apalachee High School, will be charged with murder and prosecuted as an adult, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith says.
Fox News' Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
A towing company in Georgia is offering free services to students and faculty at Apalachee High School following the shooting there Wednesday.
The owner of All County Towing and Recovery told Fox5 Atlanta that they don’t want those affected by the shooting to have to return to the school so soon, so they are offering free tows of vehicles left in the school’s parking lots.
At least five vehicles have been towed away from the property overnight, the owner added, noting that he used to go to the school and that shooting victim Richard Aspinwall was his football coach.
Former FBI agent Rob D'Amico told "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday that the FBI and local law enforcement will “have to go back” and review the way it handled past interactions with Colt Gray, the suspected gunman who opened fire Wednesday at Apalachee High School.
The comment comes after the FBI confirmed that Gray has been on its radar as a possible threat since last year. In a joint statement, the FBI's Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff's Office said the agency's National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting in May 2023.
“There’s only so much you can do when you get those warnings,” D'Amico said. “The local officers went out and interviewed the father, interviewed the son – he denied making those online threats. The father said that the son did not have unfettered access to the weapons. They did what they could and then they left because there was no probable cause to take other action.
“And that actually happens a lot around the country all the time and they don’t result in school shootings later on, but this one actually did and they will have to go back and make sure everything was done properly,” D'Amico added.
Fox News' Stepheny Price contributed to this report.
Students and parents walk off campus at Apalachee High School on Wednesday following the shooting. (AP/Mike Stewart)
The FBI has confirmed that the alleged shooter who killed two students and two teachers and wounded nine others at a Georgia high school Wednesday has been on its radar as a possible threat since last year.
In a joint statement, the FBI's Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff's Office said the agency's National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting in May 2023.
The agencies said that the threats contained images of guns.
Within 24 hours of receiving the anonymous tip, investigators determined the threats originated in Georgia and the matter was referred to the sheriff’s office.
"The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father," the FBI said. "The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them."
On Wednesday, authorities identified Colt Gray, now 14, as the shooter who killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School. Gray surrendered to authorities and was taken into custody following the rampage.
A medical helicopter is seen in front of Apalachee High School after a shooting at the school Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP/Mike Stewart)
Authorities have identified the four victims who were killed in the shooting at a Georgia high school on Wednesday morning when a student opened fire inside the school.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director (GBI) Chris Hosey said two 14-year-old students and two teachers were killed during the shooting.
Hosey identified two students killed at Apalachee High School as Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Hosey said math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irmie were also killed during the shooting.
One of the faculty victims, Aspinwall, was also a football coach at the school.
"Coach Aspinwell was one of the most kindhearted teachers I have ever met. He always made it known that if I needed help with anything he was there," a student wrote in a tribute on Instagram.
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