FULL PRESS CONFERENCE: Georgia school shooting suspect's father arrested, charged with murder

good evening we wanted to come back and and update you on the progress of the case this evening appreciate you being here in coordination with the district attorne with district attorney Brad Smith the gbi has arrested Colin Gray age 54 in connection to the shooting here at appalache high school Colin is Colt Gray's father that was arrested yesterday he is charged with the following four counts of involuntary manslaughter two counts of second deegree murder and eight counts ofu to Children Mr Gray these charges stem from Mr Gray knowingly allowing his son cult to possess a weapon this is a very difficult time as we know for students and parents and so many I know of students and parents here in this County and around this state are afraid you all have likely seen reports of incidents of other students making threats today at various schools around our state in each of these incidents police law enforcement took charges they made arrest acted very swiftly as we take incidents like this very seriously across this state this is a time for all of us as a community and a state to come together and remain Vigilant students must be supported and encouraged here in this community across the state to contact a member of their School faculty with any and all concerns of suspicious activity that they may see local state and federal law enforcement will continue to work together Around the Clock in relation to this incident here and any other incidents that come up around this state that raise concern to the safety of our students faculty and citizens here in the state of Georgia additionally Colt gray that was arrested yesterday for this incident has now been charged with four counts of felony murder uh and again we will continue to work tirelessly to uh finish uh complete this investigation uh as we move forward I will go ahead and mention to you and as as I say sometimes I'm go ahead and apologize to you as y'all all know that this is this is a murder investigation it is a very serious investigation one that we take Serious one that we will continue to to diligently work on and be very thorough with it uh with the gbi and our local Partners here so uh you'll have to forgive us if we don't answer a lot of the questions that you ask I know you have many and and we wish we could answer many of them for you but we still obviously want to maintain the Integrity of this investigation uh because it has a long way to go for it to be finished again I also want to remind everyone that uh we need to continue to pray and support support the victims that were involved here the school uh teachers The Faculty the students obviously those that lost their lives their families and the uh those that were injured uh so I'd like to call on on the sheriff to uh to come and give you a brief update on the status of those that were injured from yesterday's event thank you thank you director hosy um as director hosy said I'd like to uh to say that obviously we we're lifting up the those families our hearts are hurting for them our kids our students our teachers uh but the the nine injured I am very happy to say will make a full recovery uh and that's a testament to the response that we had in my opinion the response that medical staff happened that responded with in my opinion and we're very happy to say that they will make a full recovery uh after that that response um um again please lift up our community please keep these children these teachers we call them teachers but I call them Heroes um we met with them today emotions are very high obviously but we told them that we love them we love our teachers and what they do and we're very happy at the fact that they stood in the gap between evil to protect their children and we want to incl them and the save the lives that were saved as well yesterday but I wanted to report to you that all nine people that are injured will will expect to make a full recovery thank you are they still in the hospital several of them are still in the hospital some have been released and director can you please explain did the father actually give the gun to the suspect well I'm I'm going to leave it as how I mentioned it in the in the release that he knowingly allowed him to possess the weapon director can you tell us about how the arrest happened today did you turn himself in did you guys make contact with how did that go with investigators that that I'm honestly not familiar with the details uh all I can tell you is that he is in custody at this time willr it's it's difficult to say at this point in time we're obviously still investigating this following All Leads all evidence and we'll set to see where it takes us as we progress forward believe the arrest have been the arrest was made when we had the probable cause to make the arrest do we know when his first appearance will be I'm not sure no the dad bring to school I'm not sure about that either I'm sorry are you able to explain the charges and how he more charges uh not in great detail the the biggest thing as I mentioned earlier uh is that he is in custody at this point in time his charges are directly connected with uh the actions of his son and allowing him to possess a weapon sherff will he be housing your facility that where he'll be held how does that he'll be held in the bar County Detention Center will his mug sh be available tonight or will it some it depends on how long it takes us to book him but if if it's available we can get that to y'all tonight if not tomorrow newsed know theti Vic I don't want to speak to that because I don't know the exact number but I know that I want to just report that all nine would make a full recovery and be able to leave the hospital I believe uh I believe one two were adult teachers and the rest which would be seven would be students director can you explain there's preced for charges like this I'm sorry can you explain whether there is president in the state of Georgia as far as the gbi is concerned for the father or parent to be charg for the I don't have any details on any history of it but I would venture to say it's not something new can you tell us about the evidence that led to these charges no ma'am that's part of the ongoing investigation I apologize after all this time with him being able to talk with investigators you were pretty strong yesterday we saying this was an evil Act was very sad obviously but looking back at what the 14y old has been able to say to investigators over the last 24 hours can you reflect on just what this facing after what he allegedly did at the school what we're what we're facing heartbreak we're heartbroken a young person brought a gun into a school committed an evil act and he took lives and he injured many other people not only physically but mentally but I'm proud of bar County I'm proud of our superintendent I'm proud of these teachers I'm proud of these schools and I'm proud of where I live and we'll get past this if you see behind me up here on the hill we got a vigil going on at our flag pole I welcome you to go see those kids and those young people that are hurting director can you please explain whether you're still expecting more charges uh I think I answered that earlier uh our investigation is still ongoing uh so uh we'll see where things go with our investigation and I'm I'll leave it at that thank you so much that's all we have for tonight continue to follow gbi on X please monitor our website um we did not anticipate another update but as you can see it's fluid things are developing again we appreciate your patience and your support and your continued prayers for the victims thank you