FITZGERALD, Ga. — The mother of Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray spoke out Saturday for the first time since her teenage son was charged with shooting and killing four people at his high school.
“It's awful. It's absolutely awful,” Marcy told The Post outside her father's home in Fitzgerald, about three hours outside Atlanta.
The mother of three looked devastated as she carried pillows into her home. She was wearing a pink T-shirt, jeans, sneakers and a large cross necklace.
Asked if she had anything to say to the families of the victims, who include two students and two teachers, she avoided answering.
“I can't say anything to anyone right now. There's time to talk, but not now,” she said.
She also refused to discuss the heartfelt text message of apology that the 14-year-old Colt sent her before opening fire.
“I'm not going to get into the specifics or anything,” she said.
Marcy's brief appearance was the first time she's been seen since authorities said her son was the shooter at Apalachee High School.
Both Colt and his father, Colin Gray, face life in prison for the bloody massacre. Colin, 54, is accused of giving his son the AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre as a Christmas gift.
Marcie, 43, was at the Fitzgerald home Wednesday morning and sent a concerned text message before her son shot and killed the victim, her father, Charles Polhamus, told The Washington Post.
“Sorry, Mom,” the message read.
According to the report, Marcy frantically called Apalachee High School, alerting counselors to an “extreme emergency.”
“I was the one who notified the school counselor at the high school. I told them it was an emergency and they should go and search right away. [my son] “To check on him,” she told her sister, according to The Washington Post.
Polhamus said Colt and Collin ” [they] The grieving grandfather called for his former son-in-law to be sentenced to death.
He slammed Collin as an “evil” and abusive drug addict who led Marcy down a drug addiction path, tore apart her family and set the stage for the violence at Apalachee High School.
Mercy, who has a criminal record going back almost 20 years, previously claimed she was a victim of abuse and boasted on social media last year that her children were “thriving” after the couple split up.
Her father denied reports from the family's former neighbors that Mercy had abused the children and locked them out of the home.
“What Corey Gray did to my family, he's going to rot in hell, that's a fact,” Polhamus said outside his home. “He needs the death penalty. He's probably one of the worst narcissists in the world.”
“Colt didn't make him do it. He did it. It's not like he just decided one day to kill him,” he said. [four] No, he didn't do that. He came out of his environment.
“If you step on a pile of dung, what happens to your foot? You step on a pile of dung. Same thing. My daughter and her kids are going to live in that for 11 years.”
