Apalachee High School shooting suspect Colt Gray's furious family issues chilling threat after the 14-year-old is charged as an adult

The family of Georgia schoolhouse shooter Colt Gray threatened to spell 'full throttle' aft nan 14-year-old was charged arsenic an big for murdering 4 group connected Wednesday.

Gray's relatives leapt to his defense wrong hours of him opening occurrence astatine Apalachee High School, wherever he allegedly killed 4 group and injured 9 others. 

The teenager's aunt, Annie Polhamus Brown, took to Facebook during nan aftermath, bringing up nan issues he 'dealt with' and saying she 'will return attraction of my nephew and what he needs connected this side.' 

'Just cheque yourself earlier you speak astir a kid that ne'er asked to woody pinch nan bull**** he saw connected a regular basis,' she said successful nan posts, which person now been deleted. 

'Y'all fresh to spot Polhamus humor successful afloat throttle? Nah, I wouldn't either.' 

The societal media posts sparked fury arsenic tributes poured successful for nan 4 victims successful nan tragedy, teachers Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, some 14. 

Authorities opportunity they are still investigating really Gray was capable to bring an AR-style limb wrong his school, pinch footage of nan aftermath appearing to show nan limb connected nan level arsenic terrified students were escorted down hallways to safety. 

As parents and constabulary raced to nan schoolhouse successful Winder, Georgia, Polhamus Brown took to Facebook to plead for thief successful contacting nan Georgia Bureau of Investigation. 

'Please personification get maine successful touch pinch GBI!!! I've tried calling!' she wrote, pursuing up with: 'I americium not scared, I will not backmost down.' 

'I will not time off my nephew opinionated alone!!!' she continued successful nan post. 'When Uvalde (school shooting) happened, I told my ain children that 'only wounded group wounded people.'' 

Polhamus Brown said she did 'everything I could to conflict for my nephew', arsenic she called retired group for 'playing nan blasted game.' 

She did besides person immoderate words for nan victims of nan shooting, saying nan 'families affected by my nephew's actions merit each nan attraction now.' 

'I will NOT disrespect different parents and families that are dealing pinch this calamity connected nan other end. THEY DID NOT DESERVE THIS,' she wrote. 

While Polhamus Brown's remarks sparked backlash online from some, her Facebook friends stood down her and echoed her comments connected nan tragedy. 

One evident comparative said Colt 'never asked for what he's been done - I'm pinch you 1000000%. Prayers for EVERYONE affected.' 

Another commenter, claiming to beryllium a erstwhile coach of nan alleged schoolhouse shooter, said: 'I taught Colt and cognize first manus he dealt pinch truthful much! 

'I emotion him and will beryllium reasoning astir him and your family arsenic you spell done this tragedy! Such a saccharine boy.' 

After Polhamus Brown's societal media posts emerged, immoderate criticized her remarks, pinch 1 saying nan alleged shooter's 'family grounded him, and now you wanna make excuses.' 

Officials said that Gray's shooting spree was ended wrong minutes, and he instantly surrendered erstwhile confronted by rule enforcement, and 'gave up and sewage connected nan ground.' 

It is unclear really nan 14-year-old gunman sewage ahold of nan limb that was utilized successful nan attack, pinch cops reportedly raiding his family location successful nan hours aft nan shooting. 

Following his arrest, Gray will beryllium charged pinch execution and will beryllium tried arsenic an adult, nan Director of nan Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

According to rule enforcement, Gray opened occurrence astatine astir 10:23am, hitting astatine slightest 13 group arsenic frantic scenes took complete nan school.

Images showed students streaming retired onto nan field arsenic terrified parents raced to find their children, pinch 1 mother describing nan segment extracurricular nan schoolhouse arsenic axenic 'chaos.'

A inferior astatine nan school, Lyela Sayerath, said she was sat adjacent to Colt Gray successful algebra class just minutes earlier he began nan shooting spree.

She told CNN that Colt near nan schoolroom astatine nan opening of their people astatine 9:45am, astir half an hr earlier progressive shooter alerts sounded.

Gray didn't return a bath pass, she said, starring her to initially deliberation he was simply skipping people - earlier a loudspeaker announcement told teachers to cheque their emails.

Shortly after, Sayerath said Gray returned extracurricular their classroom, and a student sewage up to unfastened nan doorway for him earlier jumping backmost astatine nan show of his gun.

'I conjecture he saw we weren’t going to fto him in. And I conjecture nan schoolroom adjacent to me, their doorway was open, truthful I deliberation he conscionable started shooting successful nan classroom,' she said.

Sayerath said Gray proceeded to occurrence disconnected a number of bullets 'one aft another', adding: 'When we heard it, astir group conscionable dropped to nan level and for illustration benignant of crawled successful an area for illustration piled connected apical of each other.'

Sayerath said her friend was successful nan adjacent schoolroom and witnessed personification being shot, which near him 'shaken up'. 'He saw personification get shot. He had humor connected him. He was kinda limping. He looked horrified,' she added.

Describing her classmate, Sayarath said Gray 'never really talked, he wasn't (in school) astir times, he would conscionable skip class... Even erstwhile he would person talked, it was 1 connection answers.' 

Sayarath said she 'wasn't surprised' erstwhile Gray was identified arsenic nan shooter, and said that 'when you deliberation of shooters and nan measurement they act, it's usually nan quiet kid and he was nan 1 that fresh that description.' 

As accusation floods successful connected nan schoolhouse shooting - officially nan deadliest successful Georgia's history - students and parents shared their daze astatine nan scary that unfolded.

One mother, Erin Clark, shared nan matter speech she had pinch her boy Ethan from nan infinitesimal he learned location was an progressive shooter astatine his school.

He wrote: 'school shooting rn (right now). I'm scared. I'm not joking.'

His mom responded instantly, assuring him that she was leaving work. In a heartbreaking response, Ethan wrote: 'I emotion you.'

'Love you excessively baby. Where are you?' Clark said. Ethan told her that he was successful class, adding 'someone's dead.'

Many students filmed nan aftermath, pinch 1 shaken grandfather revealing his granddaughters 'were led retired past humor and victims' aft nan shooting.

'They heard nan shots, had SWAT travel successful guns drawn successful their room looking for shooters,' James Shappard said. 'No kid should person to spell done that.'