It alerts us to that there is an active situation at the school for whatever reason, and it was pressed,
There is no one single solution,
We did not drop the ball at all on this,
The first thing you wake up and think about is like, somebody lost the coach, somebody lost their dad, somebody lost their best friend,
Emotionally, it’s hard, because I feel like this, that Colt Gray moved here, he took advantage of the system and thought that he could get away with it and didn’t,
We remain committed to fostering a culture of safety within schools and working with our partners in law enforcement and emergency management to protect our communities,
They gave him verbal commands. He dropped the gun and went on the ground,
We never thought that this would happen where we lived,
The protocols at this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy,
It’s even harder just to think of, to accept, that somebody that could have done this when the FBI knew who he was, that he was capable of this. I lost my coach and classmates and friends who were hurt right across from the room I was in,
Local authorities went to the house, interviewed him, interviewed his father, they did a report, they did what they were supposed to do, and found that there was no proper cause” to arrest him
We got multiple notifications as the shooting was going on from the teachers where to respond in that general area,
They come around the hallway — they were armed, obviously he was — they interacted with him, they gave him verbal commands, he dropped the gun and went on the ground and they took him into custody immediately. They’re telling me within six minutes of the first Centegix hit that he was in custody by that time,
He was a brand new student to Barrow County Schools, he had enrolled about two weeks prior. This was his second day at school. He had been before, he left early, on that day and this was his first real full day,
Colt expressed concern that someone is accusing him of threatening to shoot up a school, stating that he would never say such a thing, even in a joking manner,
It could be that the rate of gun ownership in a state determines the number of gun restrictions that will be passed into law, but those gun laws have no effect on either firearms suicides or mass shootings."
At that time, there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state, or federal levels,
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local schools for continued monitoring of the subject,
This is a day every parent dreads, and Georgians everywhere will hug their children tighter this evening because of this painful event,
This is a senseless tragedy — and it does not have to be this way,