Bodycam: Colt Grey, the Georgia school shooter, Was Interrogated Months Before the Attack

According to new police bodycam footage, the father of Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Grey reassured authorities that he had talked to his son on several occasions about school shootings and promised to take out all the guns in the house if it turned out the youngster had made violent threats online.

The video, which was made public on Monday, shows two deputies from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office questioning 13-year-old Colt and his father, Colin Grey, in May 2023. The FBI had received a tip about threats made online to carry out “a school shooting” one year before Colt’s alleged shooting death of four people at Apalachee High School.

“I’m going to be mad as hell if he did, and all the guns will go away, and they won’t be accessible to him,” the ticked-off father tells the officers after admitting there were unsecured firearms in the house.

“The picture on my phone is of him with blood on his cheeks shooting his first deer,” Colin says — adding that it was “the greatest day ever.”

Next, Colin admits that Colt is aware of the “seriousness of weapons and what they can do.”

Although “he’s going to get all red-faced when you talk to him,” Colin assures the cops that he will get his son and that he wants to keep things “calm.”

The video then switches to Colt and his father shakily emerging onto the porch a few seconds later. Colt is dressed in a baggy blue T-shirt, grey trousers and a baseball cap.

One of the investigators asks him, “Did your dad kind of explain everything to you?”

With his hands in his pockets and slightly tense sway to his stance, Colt mumbles that his dad mentioned “something about…” before he’s cut off by his dad, who interjects with “Shooting up a school.”

“Did you say something about a school shooting?” one of the investigators asks the then 13-year-old Colt.

“Never, I just told him, I don’t know what, maybe they misheard somebody else, I don’t remember saying that,” the teen replies.

“You never, ever said…” the officer tries to confirm before Colt interjects, saying, “No sir, I swear.”

Colt responds, “Yes, sir,” when the investigators ask him if he uses Discord. He then says he hasn’t used it in a few months and thinks his account was hacked.

“I mean, I’m not trying to get anyone hemmed up or anything,” the officer says, “but this is some serious stuff.”

“Oh, he knows how serious it is, trust me,” Colin interjects.

The accused mass murderer then maintained that he never observed shooting threats on the platform, and his father seemed content with his son’s responses.

One of the investigators tells Colt, “I got no choice but to take you at your word,” but emphasises that it will be a “different story” if it turns out he is lying.

Just before the video finishes, his father growls a little, saying, “It’s a really different story.”

Colt and Colin, both 54, are accused of killing someone about the ruthless shooting.

Prosecutors claimed that Colt will face an adult trial for the gruesome rampage on four counts of murder. If found guilty, he may serve a life sentence in prison.

For Christmas, Colin Grey handed his troubled son an AR-15-style gun, which is what Colt used to carry out last week’s massacre, according to officials.

As an alleged accessory to the school massacre, his father is charged with eight charges of cruelty to minors, two counts of second-degree murder, and four counts of manslaughter.

For every criminal murder charge, he may spend up to 30 years in jail; for every involuntary manslaughter and child abuse charge, he could spend 10 years.

Charles Polhamus, the maternal grandfather of the 14-year-old accused gunman, told The Post over the weekend that former son-in-law Colin was mostly to blame for the carnage at Apalachee High School last week, which claimed the lives of two teenagers and two instructors.

“He needs the death penalty,” the grandpa said of his former son-in-law.