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Family of Georgia School Shooter Issues Response That Will Raise Eyebrows

Family of Georgia School Shooter Defends Him, Threatens to go ‘Full Throttle’

As Georgia high school shooter Colt Gray was charged with four counts of murder on Wednesday, with more expected, members of his family have shown their full support for him, with one making threats to go “full throttle” after he was charged as an adult.

Hours after killing two teachers and two students and injuring at least nine others at Apalachee High School, Gray’s aunt, Annie Polhamus Brown, made a Facebook post stating that her nephew “dealt with” a lot of issues and ensured that she would “take care of” whatever he needed.

“Just check yourself before you speak about a child that never asked to deal with the bullsh*t he saw on a daily basis,” she wrote. 

“Y’all ready to see Polhamus blood in full throttle? Nah, I wouldn’t either,” she wrote in another post.

Other potential friends and family supported her posts. One relative wrote that the boy “never asked for what he’s been through – I’m with you 1000000%. Prayers for EVERYONE affected.”

🚨#BREAKING: Mugshot has just been released to the public of Colt Gray, the 14-year-old Georgia school shooter who opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, yesterday, killing two teachers and two students, and injuring nine others pic.twitter.com/8llLyOXrtu— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) September 5, 2024

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

As Brown defended her nephew, she did have a few words for the victims. In a post, she said that the “families affected by my nephew’s actions deserve all the attention now.”

“I will NOT disrespect other parents and families that are dealing with this tragedy on the opposite end. THEY DID NOT DESERVE THIS,” Brown wrote.

Brown’s posts received severe backlash as the names of the victims were released and tributes started pouring in. One person commented that his “family failed him, and now you wanna make excuses.”

Brown has since deleted those posts.

Speaking with The Washington Post, Brown said that Gray had been “begging for help from everybody around him” and that he had suffered from mental issues before going on a shooting spree.

“The adults around him failed him,” she said, explaining that he had a troubled home life, which she did not elaborate on.

Authorities reported that Gray was questioned by a sheriff’s investigator from Jackson County, following an FBI tip that the then 13-year-old might have “threatened to shoot up a middle school” the next day, the Daily Mail reported.

Law enforcement arrived at the high school Wednesday morning after receiving calls that there was an active shooter on the loose. In a press conference, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said that Gray was apprehended in minutes, but not before killing four and sending nine other victims to the hospital.

Authorities are still trying to determine how Gray was able to sneak a rifle onto school property without being detected.

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