Apalachee High School shooting suspect's mug shot released | FOX 5 News

WELL, >>CHRISTINE: SUPPORT CONTINUES TO POUR IN AS THE BARROW COUNTY COMMUNITY BEGINS THE HEALING PROCESS. TWO TEACHERS AND TWO STUDENTS WERE KILLED WHEN A GUNMAN WALKED ONTO CAMPUS AND OPENED FIRE. NINE OTHERS WERE INJURED IN THE SHOOTING. OUR LIVE TEAM COVERAGE CONTINUES THIS AFTERNOON. FOX FIVE ANCHOR COURTNEY BRYANT JOINS US FROM APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL IN BARROW COUNTY. AND COURTNEY, IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S STILL SO MUCH ACTIVITY THERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL IN LIGHT OF THIS HUGE INVESTIGATION. THAT'S RIGHT CHRISTINE, A LOT OF ACTIVITY, BUT OBVIOUSLY NO CLASS IN SESSION TODAY, A DAY WHEN STUDENTS SHOULD BE ON THEIR FOURTH OR FIFTH WEEK OF CLASSES, RESUMING AFTER THE SUMMER BREAK. AND IT IS ACTUALLY SURPRISINGLY BUSY HERE. I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE NEWS MEDIA HERE REPORTING ON THE SCHOOL SHOOTING, BUT WE HAVE JUST SEEN PERSON AFTER PERSON COMING HERE ONTO THE CAMPUS, EITHER TO LEAVE FLOWERS OR JUST TO KIND OF WALK AROUND AND TAKE IN THE GENERAL MOOD OF THINGS. PEOPLE ARE JUST STILL LETTING IT SINK IN. WHAT TOOK PLACE HERE YESTERDAY THAT LED TO THE DEATHS OF FOUR MEMBERS OF THIS APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY. NOW, WE DO WANT TO SHOW YOU ANOTHER LOOK AT THAT MUG SHOT WE JUST GOT IN. THIS IS OUR FIRST LOOK OF THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER, 14 YEARS OLD COLT GRAY. HE HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF FELONY MURDER. HE IS CURRENTLY IN THE GAINESVILLE REGIONAL YOUTH DETENTION CENTER. BUT KEEP IN MIND, HE WILL BE TRIED AS AN ADULT. THAT'S WHAT WE GOT FROM THE GBI YESTERDAY. HIS FIRST COURT APPEARANCE WILL BE TOMORROW MORNING. WE CONTINUE OUR LIVE TEAM COVERAGE. OUR ANGELIQUE PROCTOR SPOKE WITH NEIGHBORS OF THE VICTIMS, BUT WE BEGIN WITH ERIC PERRY AND ERIC JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, WE HEARD FROM A STUDENT YOU SPOKE WITH WHO WITNESSED THE SHOOTING AND ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN HIS CLASSROOM. LET'S WALK THROUGH THAT. YEAH. COURTNEY, I MEAN, IT WAS REALLY CHILLING TO HEAR. I MEAN, THIS STUDENT SAW THE GUNMAN BURST THROUGH HIS DOOR, POINTED THE GUN AT HIM, AND HE KNOWS THE TWO VICTIMS. HE SAYS BOTH OF THEM WERE IN HIS ALGEBRA CLASS. YOU MENTIONED EARLIER I WAS OUT HERE 9:00 THIS MORNING, 930 THIS MORNING, AND SINCE THEN THERE HAS BEEN A STEADY STREAM, A STEADY FLOW OF PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH HERE WITH FLOWERS, BALLOONS AS THEY COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. WE DO WANT TO SET THE TABLE. WE KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT TO HEAR, BUT THIS IS WHAT WE UNDERSTAND FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT TO HAVE HAPPENED YESTERDAY HERE AT THE SCENE. LET'S TAKE YOU TO SOME VIDEO HERE. GBI AND BARROW COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SAY THEY FIRST GOT THAT CALL AT 1020 IN THE MORNING FOR GUNFIRE INSIDE APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL. THEY SAY WITHIN MINUTES THEY CAME FACE TO FACE WITH THE SHOOTER, WHICH WE NOW KNOW AS 14 YEAR OLD COLT GRAY, AND HE EVENTUALLY DROPPED HIS ASSAULT STYLE WEAPON AND SURRENDERED. THOSE TWO TEACHERS, RICHARD ASPINWALL AND CHRISTINA IRONE, AND TWO STUDENTS, MASON SCHERMERHORN AND CHRISTIAN ANGULO, ALL KILLED THERE. NINE OTHERS ARE EXPECTED TO RECOVER, BUT THEY WERE ALSO INJURED BY THE GUNFIRE OR IN SOME SORT AS WELL. NOW, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A REGULAR DAY FOR STUDENTS. MANY TOLD ME YESTERDAY WHILE I WAS OUT HERE ON SCENE, THEY WERE EXCITED FOR THE DAY. THEY WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THEIR FRIENDS AND OF COURSE THIS TURNED TRAGIC. WE DO WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU AGAIN TO A CHARACTER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO SHOW HIS FACE OR HIS NAME, BUT HE WANTS TO SHARE HIS STORY. HE WAS IN THAT CLASSROOM WHEN COLT GRAY CAME IN AND POINTED A GUN AND SHOT SEVERAL OF HIS CLASSMATES IN ALGEBRA CLASS. TAKE A LISTEN. >>>>: AND AFTER THREE HITS, THE DOOR FLEW OPEN AND ALL I SAW WAS WHEN I TURNED AROUND FOR A FEW SECONDS WAS A FIGURE WITH LIKE A PRETTY LARGE GUN, AIMING AT ALL THE STUDENTS AND, ALL I COULD THINK OF RIGHT IN THAT SECOND WAS TO DUCK. SO I JUMPED UNDER MY DESK, AND, HE ONLY HE STARTED SHOOTING AT THE CLASS AND ONLY DID IT FOR, LIKE A FEW SECONDS BEFORE HE WENT TO THE NEXT CLASS. SOME OF THE GIRLS WERE YELLING BECAUSE THEY GOT SHOT IN THE ARMS AND LEGS. SO THE TEACHERS STARTED LIKE, I TOOK MY HOODIE OFF TO HELP ONE OF THE TEACHERS, LIKE, BLOCK A WOUND ON ONE OF THE STUDENTS SO THEY WOULD STOP BLEEDING SO MUCH. YEAH, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LEARNING ALGEBRA, NOT HELPING HIS BLEEDING CLASSMATE. BUT EVERYONE WAS COMING TOGETHER IN THOSE TERRIFIED MOMENTS. OF COURSE. SCHOOL CANCELED FOR THIS DISTRICT FOR THE REST OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. HERE WE'RE ALSO LEARNING THAT THE SUSPECT IS DUE IN COURT TOMORROW MORNING AT 830. AND COURTNEY, I JUST WANT TO ALSO MENTION THIS AS WELL, SOMETHING I'VE NOTICED HERE. WE'VE SEEN A TOW TRUCK HERE REMOVE A LOT OF THE CARS THAT IS IN THE PARKING LOT THAT IS BEHIND US. I'M TOLD THAT'S BECAUSE MANY OF THE FACULTY, THE STAFF AND EVEN THOSE SENIORS WHO MIGHT HAVE DROVE TO CLASS THERE OR DROVE TO SCHOOL IN HIGH SCHOOL, THEY DON'T WANT TO COME BACK TO THIS CAMPUS AFTER WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY. SO THAT TOW TRUCK IS CARRYING THOSE CARS AWAY TO A DIFFERENT LOCATION. SO THEY CAN PICK UP. THIS WILL HAVE LASTING EFFECTS FOR EVERYONE THAT IS INVOLVED IN THIS. COURTNEY. YEAH. COMPLETELY UNDERSTANDABLE WHY YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO RETURN TO THE SCENE OF WHAT HAPPENED HERE. JUST A DAY LATER. ERIC, DID YOU DID YOU GET A SENSE FROM THE STUDENT THAT HE WAS EITHER FAMILIAR WITH THE SUSPECT OR THAT HE HAD EVEN MET HIM OR RECOGNIZED HIM? YEAH. SO HE DIDN'T RECOGNIZE THIS SUSPECT. HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT HE BELIEVES THAT THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN HIS FIRST CLASS, THAT THE SUSPECT HAD KNOCKED ON AND TRIED TO GET IN, AND UNFORTUNATELY, HE WAS ABLE TO GET IN. BUT HE KNEW THOSE TWO STUDENTS AS WELL. CHRISTIAN WHO HE WAS CLOSEST WITH. HE DESCRIBED HIM AS SOMEONE WHO WAS LOVING AND FUN AND JUST REALLY LOYAL AND RELIABLE THERE, AND HE WATCHED HIM DIE IN FRONT OF HIM. HE WATCHED HIS OTHER CLASSMATES THERE, SHOT BY A GUNMAN WHO HE HAD NO CLUE WHO HE WAS, AND SAID THAT HE LEFT THE CLASS AND THEN WENT TO ANOTHER OR TRIED TO GO INTO ANOTHER CLASSROOM AND DO THE