FITZGERALD, Ga. — Accused Georgia faculty shooter Colt Grey apologized to his mother earlier than he allegedly killed 4 folks — prompting her to make a determined name in a bid to cease the tragedy, in accordance with his grandfather and a report.
Charles Polhamus stated his daughter Marcee Grey was visiting him at his house in Fitzgerald, Georgia, when Colt despatched her a haunting textual content Wednesday morning.
“I’m sorry, mother,” the message learn.
Marcee known as Apalachee Excessive Faculty and warned a counselor of an “excessive emergency,” a relative advised The Washington Publish.
“I used to be the one which notified the varsity counselor at the highschool. I advised them it was an excessive emergency and for them to go instantly and discover [my son] to verify on him,” she advised her sister, in accordance with the outlet.
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After getting Colt’s textual content, Marcee rushed into her automobile to go to Winder, about three hours away, and heard half method there that two college students and two academics have been killed, Polhamus, 81, advised The Publish in an unique interview Saturday.
Marcee Grey couldn’t be reached Saturday.
Polhamus slammed Colt’s dad Colin as “evil” and claimed Colin Grey acquired Marcee hooked on medicine — and ruined the household, setting the stage for the violence at Apalachee Excessive Faculty that left two college students and two academics lifeless.
“Collie Grey did this to his household and he’ll rot in hell for it. That’s a truth,” Polhamus stated outdoors his house. “He wants the dying penalty. He’s in all probability one of many worst narcissists on this planet.”
Each Colt and Colin, 54, face fees of homicide in connection to the cold-blooded capturing. Colin allegedly gave his son the AR-15-style rifle used within the bloodbath as a Christmas reward.
What we learn about alleged Georgia faculty shooter Colt Grey’s household
- Lauren Vickers, a neighbor of the household, says the youngsters have been typically locked out of the house.
- Charles Polhamus, Grey’s maternal grandfather, says Colin Grey was verbally abusive in the direction of his grandson and daughter.
- Grey’s aunt, Annie Brown, says Grey had been struggling together with his psychological well being.
Though the previous marine doesn’t excuse the violence, he stated Colt was pushed to it due to his mother and father’ — particularly his father’s — unhealthy habits.
“He was a great child turned unhealthy in a nasty scenario. It’s unhappy. An setting {that a} child grows up in has all the pieces to do with their persona and what they develop into,” Polhamus stated.
Colin commonly screamed at Marcee and the children, he claimed.
Polhamus accused Colin of changing into hooked on opiates just a few years in the past, after hurting his again.
“Dwelling in that setting – they misplaced their home, he misplaced his job,” the grandfather stated.
“Two years he laid on his again and by no means did a factor. My daughter Marcee labored. That they had a half-million greenback farm earlier than all this occurred they usually misplaced it.”
Marcee — whose rap sheet stretches again almost 20 years — left Colin just a few years in the past and moved along with her three youngsters to Polhamus’ house, he stated, however police despatched the youngsters again to their father after she was caught with medicine.
Her dad denied stories from former neighbors of the household that Marcee abused the children herself and locked them out of the home.
“Colt is like a number of younger youngsters lately with the tablets and among the rubbish they pull up, the blood and all of the preventing. If you happen to don’t assume that has an affect on younger youngsters, you’re lacking the boat, and that was additionally a part of Colt’s downside.”
