Accused Georgia school shooter Colt Gray is pictured; family defends him over cries for help before he killed 4 people

The 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray has now been pictured. His first image, released by 11 Alive News, is a 2022 yearbook photo, which shows the accused at the age of 12 or 13 in a red Georgia Bulldogs T-shirt.

Per The New York Post's reporting, officials said that the Apalachee High School shooting suspect who opened fire in Winder, resulting in the death of two students and two teachers, is facing felony charges. The student-aged teen boy was charged with four counts of felony murder in connection with the Wednesday, September 4, rampage.

Authorities reportedly took him into custody minutes after the shooting spree broke out at the Georgia school, a month after students resumed classes in August.

Adding to the details released about the young suspect so far, his aunt, Annie Brown, told the Washington Post on Thursday that Colt had been “begging for help from everybody around him.” Insinuating that the teen boy had been struggling with unspecified mental health issues, she claimed, “The adults around him failed him.”

The Florida resident didn't expand on the issue or what the boy was supposedly dealing with prior to the Wednesday shooting.

Brown even took to her Facebook profile to defend her nephew: “Just check yourself before you speak about a child that never asked to deal with the bull**** he saw on a daily basis.”

A presumed relative commented, “Colt never asked for what he's been through - I'm with you 1000000%.”

Gray was reportedly enrolled at Haymon-Morris Middle School in Barrow Country in January. On August 1, he started his ninth-grade classes at Apalachee.

FBI said on Wednesday that Colt has previously been the subject of an investigation in May 2023, centred on school shooting threats.

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