Authorities were ‘actively looking’ for Georgia shooting suspect after a warning call from his mom the morning of the attack
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On the morning of the shooting at a Winder, Georgia high school that left four people dead, authorities were “actively looking” for the teenage suspect after the school received a warning call from his mom – but they weren’t able to get to him fast enough because of an identification issue, authorities said.
On the morning of the shooting at a Winder, Georgia, high school that left four people dead, authorities were “actively looking” for the teenage suspect after the school received a warning call from his mom – but there was a mix-up and they weren’t able to get to him fast enough, according to the Barrow County sheriff. Before last week’s mass shooting at Apalachee High School, Colt Gray, 14, apologized to his mother, Marcee Gray, in an alarming, cryptic text that prompted the mother to warn the school that something could be wrong. “I’m sorry, mom,” the text read. The mother then called the school and asked administrators to check on her son. That’s when authorities started searching for Colt Gray, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith told CNN affiliate WXIA. “She did speak to someone in the school, and we were actively looking for him,” Smith said. “I am not aware of her saying he is going to do this, or he has planned this, but there were some messages back and forth,” the sheriff added. A resource officer went to look for the boy, but there was another student in the same class with “almost identically the same name,” and both he and Colt Gray weren’t inside the classroom at the time, according to the sheriff.
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