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Father of Georgia school shooting suspect told investigators he purchased gun as holiday present for son, sources say

The father of the mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.

Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student, is accused of killing two students and two teachers with an AR-style rifle in the Wednesday shooting. Nine more people were hospitalized.

One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present.

Manifish_Destiny ,

I was gifted a shotgun at 15. It was a double barrel break action shotgun from my grandmother.

I kept it in a gun rack my grandfather left me hanging on my wall. I never had issues, but if one of my friends wanted access, it probably could have been stolen.

Lock up your guns.

2pt_perversion ,

My dad gave me a gun for one of my earlier birthdays. It was a bolt action .22 that went right into a gun safe that I couldn’t access…It was a pretty shitty present as I didn’t enjoy hunting at the time but in retrospect I’m glad I learned gun safety and shooting.

Why the fuck would you buy a 14 year old an AR15 style rifle, especially after he already had a history of making school shooting threats at school? Dude deserves prison for a long time.

kandoh ,

Respecting a gun as a deadly weapon makes you a pussy. Your gun is like your dick, only better because you can buy a really big one instead of being stuck with what nature gave you.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Sorry, but question that’s unrelated to the story specifics:

The classroom doors lock automatically, and near the end of class, the suspect knocked on the door to try to come back in, Lyela said.

Another student went to open the door but apparently saw the gun and refused to let him in, Lyela said.

Instead, the shooter turned to a nearby classroom and opened fire, “and you hear about 10 to 15 rounds back-to-back,” Lyela said.

“I heard gunshots outside my classroom and people screaming, people begging not to get shot,” said 14-year-old student Macey Right.

Did the other rooms not lock, or was he let in because the person who opened the door in the other classroom not notice the gun?

phoneymouse ,

Call me crazy, but I don’t think children should own guns.

tills13 ,

But but the real issue is them being exposed to drag queens!

HostilePasta ,

Drag queen story times are of the devil! ( The Christians say while attending church where someone dresses up and reads stories).

Fedizen ,

imagine how much worse this would be if the child in question went to drag time story hour instead of being given a killing machine! /s

lauha ,

Call me crazy, but I don’t think civilians should own AR-15s

wildcardology ,

And they were designed and marketed for civilian use. Imagine if it’s legal to purchase military grade assault rifles.

Today ,

I grew up in a rural area with just my mom. We had two handguns and a shotgun hidden in the house. Anytime we went walking in the pasture a gun came with us in case of snakes or wild dogs and a couple of times per year i was required to shoot at cans with each one. I wasn’t interested in them and didn’t like shooting them, but understood her desire for me to feel comfortable using them ‘just in case’. We often took long road trips to visit family and would stop to nap in rest areas for a few hours. The small handgun was always beside the driver’s seat. It was the 70s and early 80s and nothing was locked. 22 in the nightstand drawer, 38 in a dresser drawer, and shotgun behind her bedroom door - all loaded and ready. It didn’t seem weird; it was just what my mom did to try to keep us safe.

pineapplelover ,

Not everybody is fortunate to have responsibility and be mentally sane. Even the father in this case probably told the kid the to dos and not to dos of owning a gun (or not. Idk man). But you know, all this happened.

answersplease77 ,

he gifted him a gun to protect him from school shooting. that’s right-wing logic

quafeinum ,
@quafeinum@lemmy.world avatar

I was gonna write a witty but bleak reply to this but I’m not gonna. Have a nice day

RagingRobot ,

Is he named Colt after the gun?

paraphrand ,

Maybe the beer.

ravhall ,

Welp, send the man to jail for aiding and abetting murder.

Stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world avatar

He has, in fact, been arrested.

ravhall ,

Fuck yeah!

ElcaineVolta ,
@ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org avatar

it's odd that they used "holiday present" in the headline, but the article says-

One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present.

it's like they didn't want christmas in the same headline as the mass shooting or something?

ultranaut ,

Did they really name him after a gun too?

ArbitraryValue ,

I don’t understand why the father would just confess like that, but I suppose I shouldn’t expect good judgement from him.

girlfreddy ,
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I’m sure he believes in the rule of law, so told the truth. I’m also sure he believes that nothing will happen to him because he told the nice police officers the truth, so the nice police officers will just charge his way-too-young-to-own-a-gun son as an adult and Dad will just go on living his life as he always has.

Critical thinking skills are not strong in men like him.

eestileib ,

Also he is white.

Zaktor ,

The kid was taken alive, so it’s likely he’ll just tell them at some point.

BigMacHole ,

If you can Ban someone from buying their CHILD a GUN after that Child makes THREATS TO SHOOT UP HIS SCHOOL that’s SOCIALISM! SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!

Zaktor ,

Child soldiers are an essential bulwark against government tyranny!

TransplantedSconie ,

Well, now I know why the dad has been arrested on second degree murder and a whole slew of charges.

Kit ,

My father also bought me a gun as a birthday present as a teenager, and looking back it was wholly inappropriate and dangerous. Granted, I never had thoughts of killing people.

Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

Were you always in possession of it, or did he keep it properly stored until he took you shooting?

Waraugh ,

I had a shotgun and .223 in the back window gun rack of my truck through middle school and high school (started driving at 14 with a school permit) with shells and rounds in the glove box. Nothing was ever locked where I grew up either; homes, vehicles, businesses.

Granted I grew up in a town with under 1,000 people and the closest ‘city’ to us was an hour away and had a population of 25k.

That was forty years ago and I feel a lot differently about things and the world is a different place but when I grew up more students and teachers had guns in their vehicles at school than didn’t. Everyone hunted, I pulled off and shot a coyote in pack that was stalking around one of my teachers herd of cows on the way to school one winter. I took the coyote into class and gave it to him since I had him first period.

Cadeillac ,
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I totally get it. My dad is from a town like that, if not smaller. Place I’m from isn’t a lot bigger, but it definitely wasn’t like his. They probably still carry hunting rifles to school. They get like a week off for deer hunting season because they wouldn’t show anyways

Waraugh ,

That just gave me some deep seated nostalgia, I forgot how much I enjoyed that week off of school we’d get. I feel so out of place trying to get my sons raised up sometimes. My entire grade size was never over 37 and that was with five combined towns going to the same school. We live in a town of fifty thousand people in a different state and everything feels so big to me even though I’ve lived here nearly twenty years. Anytime I’ve stayed in a real city for more than a night or two my anxiety goes into overdrive, I don’t know how people do it.

Cadeillac ,
@Cadeillac@lemmy.world avatar

I’m right there with you friend. Pretty similar situations minus the children

Treczoks ,

And people wonder why criminals in the US have so ready access to firearms. In some areas, just steal a truck, and get a shitload of material to commit crimes for free!

HostilePasta ,

I was also gifted firearms as a child. They were kept inside a locked safe that I didn’t have the combination for when not being used for hunting or target shooting. As much as I enjoy guns, hunting, and shooting, I can also see that responsibility goes beyond “it’s guaranteed in the constitution” or equivalent bullshit.

Maeve ,

AR-15-style

Sociopaths raising a sociopath. We have to stop the race to the bottom, triggering people isn't cool, it has serious repercussions, as noted in presidential races, even.

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the perfect hunting rifle for when a herd of deer stampedes.

NOT_RICK ,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Lost a lot of good men out there in the deer stampede hunts

CCMan1701A ,

I’m waiting for someone to explain to me how an automatic gun/rifle is needed for hunting animals/deer.

Sir_Kevin ,
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AR-15’s are not automatic. Also, automatic firearms are already illegal for the majority of civilians.

eestileib , (edited )

Or 30-50 feral hogs.

BigDotNet ,

Welcome to America…

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