Georgia Official Reveals Identity of 14-Year-Old School Shooter: ‘He Will Be Tried as an Adult’

HOSEY: “And we wanted to come back this afternoon and present you with a little more of a timeline of the events that have taken place here today and what we know up to this point with the investigation. At approximately 10:20 AM this morning, the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office received alerts about reports of an active shooter and radio traffic from school resource officers concerning the same concern — or having the same concern. Within minutes, law enforcement was on scene, as well as two school resource officers assigned here to the school, who immediately encountered the subject with just minutes of this report going out. Once they encountered the subject, the subject immediately surrendered to these officers and he was taken into custody. Additionally, what I want you to know as of now, there are four individuals who are deceased from this incident, nine that have been taken to local hospitals with various injuries. Of those that are deceased, two were students and two were teachers here at the school. The priority right now for us within this investigation is to gather all the facts to make sure that we’re accurate with it because this is a murder investigation. As the sheriff mentioned earlier this morning, the shooter is in custody. His name is Colt. That’s C-O-L-T Gray. He is a 14-year-old student here at the school. G-R-A-Y. He is a 14-year-old student here at the high school. Again, he has been taken into custody. He is — he will be charged with murder and he will be tried as an adult and handled as an adult. We are coordinating these charges, and obviously this investigation, with District Attorney Brad Smith, who is the District Attorney for the Piedmont Judicial Circuit here.”