Workers looked for flawed pupil after frantic name from mom of alleged Georgia faculty shooter Colt Grey: report
Workers at Apalachee Excessive Faculty looked for the flawed pupil when warned Colt Grey may very well be planning a college taking pictures — as an alternative frantically looking for his equally named classmate Colton Grey.
The hunt began final Wednesday when Colt Grey’s mother referred to as the Georgia highschool to warn that she’d obtained an alarming message from her troubled 14-year-old son.
Colt was already out of the room, allegedly loading the rifle he’d smuggled into faculty that day — however workers mistakenly raced to search out his classmate Colton Grey, who was additionally out of the room, officers instructed WSB-TV.
“They have been in the identical classroom, and so they sat beside one another,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith mentioned of the equally named college students, each 14.
Neither Colt Grey nor the opposite pupil have been truly within the classroom when a college official went by way of the latter’s backpack, pupil Lyela Sayarath instructed the Washington Publish of the complicated moments earlier than the taking pictures unfolded.
Nonetheless, armed directors have been in a position to confront the shooter only one minute and 6 seconds after he opened fireplace, killing two college students and two academics, the sheriff mentioned.
