Apalachee High School shooting victims identified | FOX 5 News

real quick we wanted to Pro provide some additional updates uh from today's events and and I will mention too that this will be our last update for the evening so I please hope you'll understand that uh let me start by saying that there is no evidence to report that any additional shooter was involved in this incident today uh investigators are actively pursuing however any leads of any potential Associates of the shooter that was involved in this incident so I say that to say we're following up any potential leads through the investigation to ensure if there are any Associates involved in this that we we find them we identify them uh so that's part of again the ongoing investigation uh there is no evidence of of a list of schools being targeted however there is a lot of evidence that is being recovered and evaluated we're going through everything to determine if there is any active threats to any schools in this area this County and the state of Georgia and we will continue to monitor that uh throughout this investigation throughout the evening as we as we carry on there was a a call uh as we're aware of to a local high school as well this morning with a reported threat uh police responded and investigated and determined that there was no uh threat after all uh there's been reports that a Colton gray who is another student here at the school was involved or a Colton at Colton gray was uh involved in this if you recall from a previous press conference early this afternoon the individual that we have arrested and will be charged with this his name is Colt gray uh but there is another student here at the school with a very similar name we want to ensure everyone that Colton gray is not involved in this incident that is the name that I provided you earlier this afternoon so those reports were inaccurate uh if that if that was was passed on to you I do however want to identify the victims of this of this incident today those that lost their life in this tragic event Mason sherah horn age 14 who is a student here at the school Christian angalo who was 14 also a student here at the school Richard aspenwall not uh sure of his age but he was is a teacher here at the school and Christina uh I'm sorry for my pronunciation who is also a teacher here at the school we will post a list of these victims uh for the correct spellings for everyone uh later this evening after we complete the press conference here also as has been released the FBI's national uh threat operations center has rece received anonymous tips in the past of online threats to commit School violent or school shootings at an undetermined location and time the FBI referred this information to the Jackson County Sheriff Office for Action uh the Jackson County Sheriff's Office identified and located gray who is our suspect in this case they conducted an investigation at that time and there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action uh this is not recent this is in the past but we wanted to bring that to your attention uh because we are pursuing that uh working with the FBI on that and any connection to that that incident that could be connected to today's incident as well also we're also aware of uh some previous contacts that the Department of Family and Children Services in the area had had with the suspect in his family and we are pursuing uh that Avenue as well too to see if that has any connection with today's incident let me stress again as we have many times that this is still a very fluid investigation it is still very active uh we will have agents and there will be law enforcement Personnel that will be P pursuing investigative leads and collecting evidence throughout the night and then to much of tomorrow I would anticipate as well we again ask for your patience in that this is a criminal investigation uh and we're going to treat it like that uh so I apologize ahead of time if we don't answer some of the uh the question that you may ask so please understand I also want to want to bring note to one very special thing that we do not need to forget about here is we have heroes in our midst we've talked about our law enforcement Personnel our fire our EMS uh those that are deceased are heroes in my book those that are in the hospital recovering right now are heroes in my book but also the hero that we need to remember is our faculty and staff here at this school they acted admirably they were heroes in the actions that they took the protocols that this school and this system activated today prevented this from being a much larger tragedy than what we had here today so I want to recognize them uh as Heroes because they are and continue with our thoughts and prayers as has been mentioned for the families that were lost here today those that were lost here today those that are recovering in the hospital and obviously those that were affected directly by this tragedy here at the school and all of the community of bar County uh we need to continue have them in our thoughts and prayers he will be booked tonight I'm not sure the court appearance but it will be within the reasonable amount of time enfor learn about the weapon that was used in this was an AR platform style weapon we're still investigating that aspect of it go out of the and come back we heard some of that from stud we're still trying to clarify a lot of the timeline in from the time that he got here to school today until the incident took place last one for me I mean so often I know people at home we always hear something that the FBI has heard something about someone who go one of these events stop this because Happ time we when lives are s how can we stop this from happen well there's a variety of ways in my personal opinion Community involvement what our school system is doing here uh to ensure that uh whether we'll be able to stop it completely one day or not I don't know that's that those are decisions that each individual is making on their own to do this uh but again I go back to what I said earlier about the heroes here that prevented things from being a lot worse today but we've got to take action within our own communities take care of each other uh be aware of our surroundings and what's going on in our community