BREAKING: Georgia high school shooter Colt Gray charged with 4 counts of felony murder

14-year-old Colt Gray has been charged with four counts of felony murder in connection to the fatal school shooting that took place at a Georgia high school on Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced on Thursday afternoon. Four were killed.

Gray, who was a student of Apalachee High School, will be tried as an adult. The bureau said that his first court appearance will be Friday morning.

The autopsies of the four victims will be performed on Thursday at the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office. Two students and two teachers were killed in the shooting. An additional nine people were transported to hospitals with injuries. 

The victims have been identified as students Christian Angulo, 14, and Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, according to NPR.

Aspinwall was a math teacher at the school and an assistant football coach for the Apalachee Wildcats, Fox 5 reported. He was hired in 2023 as the team’s defensive coordinator. Isaiah Hooks, a sophomore football player, said, "It's just so hard to think that somebody that you spent so much time with, because this is my second year with coach, but spending so much time, like family basically. So, turning around, knowing that he's not going to be there."

Irimie was described by students as being patient and caring, and was a member of the math department at the high school.

Schermerhorn, a freshman, was described by family as "someone who was always positive and always looked at the bright side of things" and loved playing video games and had recently begun learning how to play the trumpet. 

Angulo, also a freshman at the school, was described by friends as being a free spirit who liked to make others laugh. "I was just like, 'What's going on?' And then I checked the family group chat and there's my sister saying that there's a shooting at Apalache and that's how I was just like, 'This isn't real, this can't be happening," said Abner Sanz, a longtime friend of Angulo. 

"I started asking other people if it was true that he had passed away because I just wanted to know. I was in denial because you would never believe somebody that you knew would pass away just like that," Sanz added.

The FBI’s Atlanta Division revealed on Wednesday evening that Gray had previously been questioned about threats to carry out a school shooting in 2023. 

"In May 2023, the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time. The online threat contained photographs of guns. Within 24 hours, the FBI determined the online post originated in Georgia and the FBI’s Atlanta Field Office referred the information to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for action," the FBI wrote in a statement.

"The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father. The father stated he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them. The subject denied making the threats online. Jackson County alerted local school for continued monitoring of the subject," they added, clarifying in a follow-up post that the 13-year-old referenced was the same teen as the one arrested for the shooting.