The latest college taking pictures at Apalachee Excessive College in Georgia has revealed a number of missed warnings main as much as the tragedy, elevating critical questions on college security protocols.
Marcee Grey, mom of 14-year-old Colt Grey, made an pressing name to the varsity round 9:50 am on the morning of the taking pictures, after receiving a distressing textual content from her son that learn, “I’m sorry.”
She referred to as the varsity and requested directors to verify on him.
She recounted her dialog with a college counselor in an interview with ABC Information. Grey was knowledgeable {that a} instructor had already raised issues about Colt making references to high school shootings. Regardless of this, the response to her warning was tragically insufficient.
“The counselor stated, ‘Nicely, I wished to let you already know that earlier this morning one among Colt’s academics had despatched me an e mail that stated Colt had been making references to high school shootings,’” Marcee Grey stated.
“I advised them it was an excessive emergency and for them to go instantly and discover Colt to verify on him,” Marcee Grey later stated in a textual content message to her sister. “I don’t perceive what took them so lengthy.”
Along with Grey’s alarming name, there have been different warning indicators earlier that day. Authorities revealed that an nameless caller had warned of deliberate assaults on a number of faculties, together with Apalachee Excessive, additional escalating the day’s rigidity. Nevertheless, this warning didn’t immediate the extent of quick motion essential to stop the disaster.
The taking pictures started roughly half-hour after Grey’s name, with college useful resource officers mistakenly detaining a pupil with an analogous identify as an alternative of Colt. This error allowed Colt to hold out the assault, ensuing within the deaths of two academics and two college students, and injuring 9 others.
Marcee Grey advised ABC Information she hadn’t spoken to her son for the reason that taking pictures.
“I might inform him that I really like him – that me and Jesus will love him without end and ever,” she stated. “And I might inform him that ‘it’s not your fault.’ It’s not his fault.”
Colt Grey was arrested after surrendering to a faculty safety officer and now faces a number of fees, together with 4 counts of felony homicide. His father, Colin Grey, can also be charged with critical offenses together with involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to kids. Each are being held with out bail and are scheduled to seem in court docket on December 4.
The day’s collection of missed warnings and the delayed response underscore a crucial want for improved communication and security measures in faculties to stop such tragedies.
Marcee Grey, mom of 14-year-old Colt Grey, made an pressing name to the varsity round 9:50 am on the morning of the taking pictures, after receiving a distressing textual content from her son that learn, “I’m sorry.”
She referred to as the varsity and requested directors to verify on him.
She recounted her dialog with a college counselor in an interview with ABC Information. Grey was knowledgeable {that a} instructor had already raised issues about Colt making references to high school shootings. Regardless of this, the response to her warning was tragically insufficient.
“The counselor stated, ‘Nicely, I wished to let you already know that earlier this morning one among Colt’s academics had despatched me an e mail that stated Colt had been making references to high school shootings,’” Marcee Grey stated.
“I advised them it was an excessive emergency and for them to go instantly and discover Colt to verify on him,” Marcee Grey later stated in a textual content message to her sister. “I don’t perceive what took them so lengthy.”
Along with Grey’s alarming name, there have been different warning indicators earlier that day. Authorities revealed that an nameless caller had warned of deliberate assaults on a number of faculties, together with Apalachee Excessive, additional escalating the day’s rigidity. Nevertheless, this warning didn’t immediate the extent of quick motion essential to stop the disaster.
The taking pictures started roughly half-hour after Grey’s name, with college useful resource officers mistakenly detaining a pupil with an analogous identify as an alternative of Colt. This error allowed Colt to hold out the assault, ensuing within the deaths of two academics and two college students, and injuring 9 others.
Marcee Grey advised ABC Information she hadn’t spoken to her son for the reason that taking pictures.
“I might inform him that I really like him – that me and Jesus will love him without end and ever,” she stated. “And I might inform him that ‘it’s not your fault.’ It’s not his fault.”
Colt Grey was arrested after surrendering to a faculty safety officer and now faces a number of fees, together with 4 counts of felony homicide. His father, Colin Grey, can also be charged with critical offenses together with involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to kids. Each are being held with out bail and are scheduled to seem in court docket on December 4.
The day’s collection of missed warnings and the delayed response underscore a crucial want for improved communication and security measures in faculties to stop such tragedies.