Another major breaking news alert to share with you….

Suspected school shooter Colt Gray’s father, Colin Gray, has just been arrested and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

Wow!

Take a look:

BREAKING🚨: Colin Gray, the father of the suspected Apalachee High School shooter, has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Gray, 54, is facing four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two… pic.twitter.com/QYYDQnE2Zz

— Melissa Hallman (@dotconnectinga) September 5, 2024

Here are more details, from CNN:

The father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Colin Gray, 54, is facing four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the GBI said Thursday.

His son, Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student, is accused of killing two students and two teachers with an AR-style rifle in the Wednesday shooting. Nine more people were hospitalized.

CNN is working to determine whether Colin Gray has legal representation. When reached by phone on Thursday, the Barrow County Public Defender’s Office could not confirm if they were representing him and had no comment.

Gray told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.

One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present. The timeline the teen’s father provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his family to investigate school shooting threats made online.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia closed that investigation because the tip about the threat could not be substantiated.

CNN has made several attempts to reach Colin Gray by phone and in person at the family home.

Wednesday’s mass shooting, which happened just weeks into the new school year, was the 45th school shooting so far this year and the deadliest US school shooting since the March 2023 massacre at The Covenant School in Nashville that left six people dead.

Richard Aspinwall, Christina Irimie, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo were all victims in the Apalachee High School shooting on September 4.

Will more arrests follow?

HOLY CRAP: Colt Gray’s Family Threatens To Go “FULL THROTTLE” With Blood!

Wow, this is bad….

It ALMOST makes you feel sorry for this kid, the alleged shooter in yesterday’s horrific school shooting.  Almost.  Because apparently he had one hell of a bad family.

Family members of the alleged shooter went online today and went on the offensive unleashing angry and vile and vitriolic tirades against anyone saying anything bad about Colt, at one point threatening to go “full throttle” in a bloody rage.

Sick stuff.

Take a look here:

NEW: Apalachee High School sh**ting suspect Colt Gray's family is *defending* him after he k*lled four innocent people, threaten to go "full throttle."

Multiple family members have lashed out since the incident.

"Just check yourself before you speak about a child that never… pic.twitter.com/K8sEP9DJJk

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 5, 2024

NEW: Apalachee High School sh**ting suspect Colt Gray’s family is *defending* him after he k*lled four innocent people, threaten to go “full throttle.”

Multiple family members have lashed out since the incident.

“Just check yourself before you speak about a child that never asked to deal with the bull**** he saw on a daily basis,” his aunt Annie Polhamus Brown said on Facebook.

“Y’all ready to see Polhamus bl**d in full throttle? Nah, I wouldn’t either.”

“Colt never asked for what he’s been through – I’m with you 1000000%. Prayers for EVERYONE affected,” an apparent relative said in a comment.

A former teacher even called him a “sweet boy.”

“I taught Colt and know first hand he dealt with so much!”

“I love him and will be thinking about him and your family as you go through this tragedy! Such a sweet boy.”

Here are two screenshots:

Look, I get wanting to defend your family and stand by them — even in the worst of situations — but maybe you want to drop all the wildly inflammatory statements and not make threats like how you will go “full throttle”?

We saw “full throttle” from your family yesterday (allegedly) and it was very evil.

The family clearly didn’t do this kid any favors:

🚨🇺🇸FAMILY OF APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT DEFENDS HIM AFTER TRAGEDY

The family of Colt Gray, the suspect in the Apalachee High School shooting that left 4 people dead, is defending him, with some relatives threatening to go "full throttle" against critics.

Relatives… pic.twitter.com/oKymQuU2nF

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 5, 2024

The New York Post added this:

The aunt of alleged Georgia school shooter Colt Gray threatened to go “full throttle” on anyone speaking ill of the 14-year-old suspect on social media just hours after the massacre unfolded.

Annie Polhamus Brown, who identified herself as Gray’s aunt, leapt to the teen’s defense in a series of since-removed Facebook posts soon after authorities identified him as the alleged gunman who opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder on Wednesday.

Deadly shots rang out at 10:30 Wednesday morning.
“They are charging my 14yo nephew as an adult, for murder,” Brown wrote in one of her Facebook posts after Gray was accused of slaughtering four people and wounding at least nine others during the shooting spree at his school.

“Yall ready to see Polhamus blood in full throttle? Nah, I wouldn’t be either.”

The woman vowed to stick by the alleged gunman, saying she “WILL NOT” leave her “nephew standing alone!!!!”

“When Uvalde happened, I told my own children that ‘only hurt people hurt people’,” Brown wrote, adding that she did “EVERYTHING” she could to “FIGHT” for her nephew.

“I will take care of my nephew and what he needs on this side — just check yourself before you speak about a child that never asked to deal with the bulls—t he saw on a daily basis,” she said in the post.

Brown didn’t elaborate in the posts on the apparent issues she claimed the teen had endured.

She later told the Washington Post, though, that the teen had been “begging for help from everybody around him” for mental health issues prior to the massacre.

“The adults around him failed him,” Brown said, adding that his apparent struggles were exacerbated by a tough home life.

The aunt, who lives in Florida, wouldn’t expand on the mental health issues but said she had tried to get him assistance from afar. She added that she helped him re-enroll in school back in January after a period of absenteeism.

It comes after the alleged shooter’s relative had earlier begged in a social media post for “someone” to get her in touch with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in the aftermath of Wednesday’s bloodshed — claiming she’d tried calling but hadn’t been able to get through.

“I am not scared, I will not back down,” Brown said in her social media rant.

Elsewhere in her tirade, Brown appeared to offer support to the families of the victim, writing: “I Will NOT disrespect other parents and families that are dealing with this tragedy on the opposite end. They DID NOT DESERVE THIS!!!!”

“Y’all can go ahead and play the blame game all you want, but THE FAMILIES affected by my nephew’s actions deserve all the attention now!!!!!!,” she added.