Georgia high school shooting: Suspect’s former neighbors tell harrowing stories of alleged violence, mayhem

STATHAM, Georgia – Former neighbors of the alleged Georgia high school shooter have shared a glimpse into the family’s chaotic home.

Fox News Digital spoke with neighbors of 14-year-old Colt Gray in Statham, Georgia, a small town of about 2,000 people where the suspected shooter’s family lived until they sold the house in September 2019.

The current owners of Gray’s former home, who spoke to Fox News Digital anonymously, said the house on nearly 8 acres of land was a mess when they bought it in 2019.

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The current neighbor said Mauree Gray had warned her family and their real estate agents about Colin’s volatile mood on moving day.

“The day we closed on the house, I was with my wife and our real estate agent, and Mauree came up to us and told us not to make eye contact with Colin, they called him Coly,” the neighbor said. “Mauree said he was in a bad mood and she didn’t know what he was going to do.”

“But when he came in, he was as stoned as he could be,” he said. “Red-eyed and glassy. He wasn’t bothering anyone, but he wasn’t really interacting either.”

The neighbor said that during the move-in process, the children, including Colt, “were left to fend for themselves.”

“There wasn’t a lot of oversight,” he said.

The neighbor showed Fox News Digital where the Gray family measured Colt’s growth before the parents’ tumultuous divorce.

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The growth chart showed Colt Gray’s progress over the years, with the family taking notes from 2017-2019.

Other neighbors corroborated the stories about Colin Gray’s volatile mood, with one elderly neighbor sharing a heartbreaking story of her brief interaction with Marcee Gray.

“It was during the day, but I was home alone and I saw her (Marcee) running down our driveway,” the elderly neighbor said. “She had a child in her arms and she ran to our barn in the back and tried to get in. And all of a sudden, I saw her husband, in a truck, pull up and start running toward our barn.”

“Marcee tried to get into the barn, but it was locked, and when I saw him (Colin) running toward it, I went out and yelled, ‘What’s going on here?’ He looked up, turned around and ran away really fast.”

“When she left the building, I told her, ‘I’m here if you need me,’” the neighbor said. “She thanked me and I never saw her again.”

The next day, the elderly neighbor was greeted by an unexpected note on her front door.

“It said, ‘Thank you. You saved my life,’” she said. “And it was signed, Marcee.”

Another neighbor shared that Colt was an exceptionally “bright and witty” child.

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“We had Colt and his brother, who were only two at the time, ride on our horse,” the neighbor said. “He was 7 or maybe 8 at the time. He was very smart and witty. Really cute kids.”

After the sale of the Statham, Georgia home, the Gray family seemed to spiral downward as the parents’ divorce separated the three children. Colt went to live with his father, while the two younger siblings initially lived with their mother.

After their divorce, Colin and Colt Gray rented two homes in Jefferson, Georgia, until they moved to Winder, Georgia. It was in this Winder, Georgia, rental that Colt and Colin were living at the time of the heartbreaking Apalachee High School shooting.

Four people were killed and nine others were injured in the shooting on Wednesday, September 4. The two students killed in the shooting were identified as Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were also killed, authorities said.

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THE The shooting was first reported at 9:30 a.m.. Wednesday. The sheriff’s office received an alert about an active shooter at 10:20 a.m.

GBI Director Chris Hosey said law enforcement arrived on scene “within minutes.”

“Law enforcement responded very, very quickly to this incident,” Hosey said previously.

The 14-year-old is being tried as an adult and is charged with four counts of murder. He is accused of using an AR-style semi-automatic rifle to commit the killing.

His father, Colin Gray, faces charges related to in prosecutors’ latest attempt to hold parents accountable for their children’s actions in school shootings.

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“You don’t have to be physically injured to be a victim,” District Attorney Brad Smith told reporters Friday. “Everybody in this community is a victim. Every kid in that school was a victim.”