Bodycam Footage Shows Interview with Georgia School Shooting Suspect About Alleged Threats Made in 2023

Mar. 15, 2025

The FBI said the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office interviewed the boy and his father, but that there was no probable cause for further action.

In the footage, police arrive at the home of the suspect’s father, Colin Gray, and speak to him first. The father tells police there are weapons in the house but that they aren’t loaded, adding that he and his son enjoy shooting and that his son had recently shot his first deer.

The suspected shooter is then interviewed along with his father and denies having made any threats on Discord, a social media messaging platform.

“Maybe they misheard somebody else,” the alleged shooter says of the threats. “I swear.”

Apalachee High School.Megan Varner/Getty

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In the video, the suspect also told police that he had deleted Discord, having not used it in several months.

The father tells police during the interview that if his son had in fact made such threats, he would take away access to the guns.

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Colin Gray wasarrested a day after the shootingand charged with multiple counts of both second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, as well as eight counts of cruelty to children.

Clockwise from top left: Christian Angulo, Richard Aspinwall, Christina Irimie, Mason Schermerhorn.

Neither the father nor the alleged shooter have entered pleas.

The victims killed in the shootingwere identified as students Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, both 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53.

source: people.com