CNN ran a story yesterday headlined, “The father of the Georgia school shooting suspect has been arrested and charged, authorities say.” Another school shooting, another baffling mystery. I’ve rounded up all the reliable information for you.
On Wednesday, 14-year-old Colt Gray (mugshot, above) murdered two students and two teachers at his Apalachee High School in Jackson County, Georgia. He also wounded seven other folks, before surrendering to a school resource officer. He was arrested and charged as an adult.
It could have been much worse. When newly-armed Colt first knocked on a locked door to re-enter his algebra classroom, an alert student who went to open the door for him saw his gun and refused, forcing Colt to improvise and costing him time. And, only a week before, Apalachee HS had implemented a new safety program involving teacher ID badges with panic buttons activating alarms and immediately notifying police. At least one teacher pushed the button.
Colt first entered law enforcement’s crosshairs last year, when the FBI investigated him for an alleged Discord post expressing a desire to “shoot up a middle school tomorrow.” Colt and his father Colin Gray denied authoring the Discord post, and swore Colt would never even consider a threat like that.
Still, for some yet unexplained reason, after the visit from local police investigating the Discord post, Colt’s father bought him a semi-automatic rifle for Christmas, which Colt used in the shooting. It’s not clear why. Was Colt in a shooting club? Did the two hunt or visit the shooting range together? These questions remain unanswered and unasked.
Oddly, early Wednesday morning before the show started, an unknown caller warned Apalachee HS of an incipient shooting, there and at four other schools. Police wondered whether the report was intended to divert protective resources.
Maybe. But if so, why would they include Apalachee? Who called? No answers.
Yesterday, police arrested Colt’s father Colin, on several charges amounting to negligent manslaughter, since he provided Colt with the murder weapon.
Colt’s maternal influence.
Colt’s home life was a mess. The UK Daily Mail reported that Colt’s mother, Marcee Gray, is the author of an extensive, decades-long criminal record spanning back to 2007, and was incarcerated as recently as April. Marcee’s impressive rap sheet includes convictions for domestic violence, drug possession (meth), criminal mischief, property damage, DUI, civil fraud, and a grab-bag of traffic violations. She was restrained from contacting Colt’s father Colin except through a third party.
According to what appears to be Marcee’s LinkedIn profile, she’d earned an MBA and last worked as a Senior Quality Engineer for PCC Airfoils, an aircraft engine manufacturer. Copies of what are alleged to be her Facebook posts appear lucid and well-written. On her LinkedIn, Marcee wrote, “Continual improvement is my obsession.”
The New York Post described Marcee as “an abusive mother who was battling drug and alcohol addictions,” citing the family’s landlord. The Post also reported that police and child services “visited the Gray home on a regular basis,” according to the landlord and a former neighbor.
Maybe most significantly, Colt’s aunt, Annie Brown, told the Washington Post that Colt was “struggling with mental health issues,” and said the 14-year-old had been “begging for help from everybody around him” for months before the shooting. On Tuesday —Colt’s second day at the school— Colt left class early to go to the counselors’ office for anxiety, according to the Jackson County sheriff.
It would make sense Colt would be anxious. One wonders whether the young man was taking any SSRI’s for his anxiety. And whether he had the jabs.
Social media is packed with understandable speculation about whether Colt was transitioning his gender. Folks have noted Colt’s odd appearance in his mugshot, the dyed hair, the ear piercings, and his feminine aspect. But so far, pictures circulating on social media purporting to show his trans status are, apparently, fake.
None of Colt’s interviewed relatives, and there were several, referred to him as trans or used feminine pronouns. Nor did any of his classmates who spoke to reporters, but it’s not clear how well they actually knew Colt, since he’d only been in classes there one day.
We’ve seen no social media posts from Colt himself, which is also odd.
Bottom line: it is too early to conclude Colt was transitioning, although it would be consistent with his other mental health issues. But, for some reason, media has refused to print any recent pictures of Colt (except his mugshot), instead running what amounts to a small photo album of Colt as a child.
Twitter’s AI flat refused to even search for recent pictures of Colt, citing privacy.
My conclusion, after much research, is that transgenderism as one of Colt’s mental health problems is possible and cannot yet be ruled out.
The left, of course, immediately framed the story in terms of ‘gun violence.’ But what we know so far about Colt’s tragic story raises other issues that are much more urgent, such as what is wrong with the kids? Politico headline from April:
The useless experts are baffled again. After what we’ve learned over the last four years about our spineless and effete expert class, until proven otherwise, I will presume that expert bafflement means the real cause of spiking anxiety and depression among young people is politically inconvenient. Thus, a generation of American youth must suffer so the experts can preserve their professional sinecures.
If our bloated health agencies treated the pandemic of depression among our own children half as seriously as they responded to the fake covid pandemic, might Colt still be attending classes? And might the two teachers and two students killed this week still be alive?
Seriously, what do we need the CDC for anyway, except to make our collective health worse? I’m just asking. Actually, I did ask; I invested a valuable half hour of research I’ll never get back trying to identify the CDC’s major accomplishments and I came up empty. One chatbot even tried to convince me the CDC’s best achievements had something to do with DEI. Maybe you’ll have better luck.
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