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Good evening and thank you for being with us tonight. I'm Jennifer Bellamy. There is a growing memorial right now for the 214 year old students and two math teachers shot and killed Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Barrow County. Investigators just shipped, starting to piece the details as another team now sits behind bars, accused in the deadly mass shooting 11, a live news anchor, Ron Jones leading our team coverage tonight from Appalachia High School. And Ron, we can see uh we have been able to see the memorials growing there behind you and it continues to grow, Jennifer. I mean, you can see family members showing up students showing up a lot of emotion there. Now, about two hours ago, we did receive the suspected shooter mug shot. So let's get to that right now. This is 14 year old Colt Gray. He was investigated by authorities about alleged threats. This was last year. Well, investigators told local schools to monitor him but decided there was no probable cause to actually arrest him. They didn't have enough evidence to actually arrest him. You love lies. Molly Oak joins us. Now, more about the suspect. Now Molly. Tell us a little bit more about this. We're learning that he had not been a student very long at this school at Appalachia High School. Right. The Barrow County Sheriff saying that Cole Gray had really just enrolled two weeks ago and that yesterday was only his second day as a student at the school. In an interview with NBC. Tonight, the sheriff is giving us more insight into the tragedy that rocked this community 10:20 a.m. Wednesday in Winder, we got the alerts from the Syndics that we had uh an active shooter at Apalachee High School. Apalachee High School goes on a hard lockdown. It was carnage, there was blood everywhere. You could smell the, you could smell the gun powder, you could smell a lot of screaming, yelling a little bit of chaos. Barrow County Sheriff, Judd Smith says the shooter was stopped just minutes after the alerts. We prevented more deaths with our Sr Os interacting with the suspect within minutes, five or six minutes, they come around the hallway. Uh they uh were armed, obviously he was, they interacted with him. They gave him verbal commands and he dropped the gun, went on the ground and they took him into custody immediately. The GBI says 14 year old Colt Gray is charged with four counts of felony murder with more charges expected. This is a yearbook photo of Gray from two years ago. Our heart breaks and goes out to the families of the four victims that were killed and murdered. That's what this is, is a murder. Smith says the nine people injured in the shooting are all expected to be ok. The GB I says today they are performing the autopsies of the four victims. It also says Colt Gray's first appearance is expected tomorrow. He will appear virtually reporting live in Winder Mao 11 live news. Molly. Thanks a lot for that amazing coverage today for the past couple of days. By the way, folks tonight, investigators say that they're still working to try to nail down an actual clear timeline of the accused shooter actions. But here's what we know so far about what happened inside Appalachia High School. On Wednesday morning, a student named Layla Sarath spoke to CNN and said that the alleged shooter left her classroom around 9:45 a.m. She says he came back toward the end of the class with a gun but another student refused to open the door. So she says he went to the class next door and open fire around 10:20 a.m. The Barrow County Sheriff's Office says it had received the first alert of an active shooting situation at Appalachian High School school resource officers responded and so did law enforcement. And within six minutes of that first alert, the sheriff's office says that Colt Gray was taken into custody. We're told the alert system, teachers we can immediately trigger a lockdown. It's unclear exactly when that lockdown was lifted. However, 11 alive heard from the Barrow County School district around 11:34 a.m. letting us know that students were being released to go home and class was canceled for the rest of the week. And you know, we should also point out that there was crime scene tape as soon as we got here last or yesterday, last night. However, the crime scene tape is now down. That's why you see a lot of the loved ones. Some of the students showing up at these makeshift memorials. Now, let's talk about, talk about the victims. The shooting claimed the lives of two math teachers. We're talking about 39 year old Richard Aspenwall and 53 year old Kristina Ira. Uh two of the 14 year old students were killed, also Kristen Angulo and Mason Sham Shamir Horn as well. So those are the actual four victims in this horrible, this horrific tragic accident. Let's send it over to Grace King right now with a lot more as we're learning more from the families of the victims. Absolutely. It's a quiet but emotional day here at Apalachee High school, we've seen a crowd growing all day right now. They're gathered in prayer around that makeshift memorial you talked about as they remember and honor the victims. I just thought it was the right thing. You know, it's just God asking me, you know, put these flowers, you know, 14 year old Christopher Quince are grappling with tragedy at his own school. I've just been, I've just been shook. You know, I haven't been feeling the same. I've, I cried this morning. You know, it's very hard. It was mostly like, it was people from my grade and it's just really hard. He isn't sure how they can ever go back. It's a, it's a good environment. But, you know, ever since that day, I mean, I don't think, I feel, I don't think I'd feel safe here as investigators continue searching for answers. Christopher's peers prayed for the victims. 14 year olds, Mason Shermer Horn and Christian Angulo, as well as teachers, Richard Aspinwall and Christina Ira, the one who cared, she was one of my favorites. Senior Joshua Pruitt says he'll miss being in M Iy's class. It's sad. I feel bad for her and her family and I mainly feel bad for the people that didn't get to meet her and didn't get to experience the joy she brought to the school. He hopes district leaders will give them more time to heal. I mean, I understand want to continue her education, but that's just not how they should do it. And the thing about winder is this is a tight knit community. You can see everyone gathering in prayer, strength, finding strength in each other, remembering their loved ones and being there for each other. They will of course, continue to do that in the coming weeks and months. Live in Winder Grace King. A loving the live news. Yeah, that's right. Grace. We see it every single day, every moment, every minute that they're here right now. We're going to send things over to kiss Belger and kiss before we get to you. The last time we talked to you, we can tell that you have spoke with a lot of students there, there was a lot of emotion. You felt that emotion. Are you doing? Ok. I am Ron. It's, it's as you can imagine, hard to not be emotional when you hear so many Children, Children talking about what they've experienced and then the people they've lost, especially coach A I've heard so many stories about Richard Espin Mall. That's his name. But everyone said he was coach A to them and no matter what they know that they could count on him, it was once a place where they came to learn. But today Apalachee high school students returned to grieve. We really just didn't want to believe it because that was somebody who we would have never expected for this to happen. On any given day, Isaiah Hooks came to lay his bouquet and remember the victims of the shooting that happened Wednesday, one in particular coach Richard Aspinwall, some people were around it when it had happened. So they had automatically they were telling their parents and then they had told us he was known simply as coach A and was one of four people killed a 14 year old student is now in custody for the shooting. Thursday, current and former athletes like Marel brought, say his impact could be felt well beyond the football field. He would always check up on me after anything that ever popped up. You know, he was always reaching out a relationship that went beyond player and coach. He showed you that he cared about, you showed you that he was always on his mind. Memories, both athletes say are more precious than ever. And you heard from football players past and present in that story. But I have heard from students who had him as a teacher. He was a math teacher who said even then they knew even if they never played a single game on the turf, that coach a would be there for him. That's an impact that goes far beyond any classroom in any football field in winter. Kris Belger 11, a live news. All right, Kris, thanks a lot folks. Before we go, I just wanna push in real quick to show you that they're having a prayer vigil as we speak as the flags are at half staff. You see balloons. You see folks gathered around and Jennifer, I just wanna say that that is continuing to grow um day by day, minute by minute. And we're gonna talk about the nine other victims that are expected to, to recover. We'll talk about that later coming up on 11 live news. At six. All right. Well, yeah, a lot of people thinking of those families and those victims as well tonight. Thank you. Well, our coverage of the deadly mass shooting at Apalachee High school continues in just a few minutes. We're gonna look at how the accused shooter had access to an A R style rifle at the age of 14 and whether anyone else could face charges in this case.