The more that gets reported about Colt Gray the more disturbing and baffling the case becomes.
What keeps coming up, again and again, is the awareness people had about Colt Gray’s downward spiral.
People knew he was heading into crisis.
The phone log, texts and interviews provide the strongest indications yet that school officials were alerted to concerns about the suspect on the morning of the shooting and may have been looking for him in the minutes before he allegedly killed four people and injured nine with an AR-15-style rifle inside Apalachee High. The texts also show that the school and family were in contact about his mental health a week before the shooting, and that Brown told a relative the teen was at the time having “homicidal and suicidal thoughts.”
They knew a year ago he was having anger issues—that he was harboring an immense amount of rage.
They knew months ago that his home environment was not good.
They knew a week before the shooting that he was having violent fantasies.
How many red flags are needed? How many warning signs does it take?
Despite all this advance knowledge, nothing could be done to prevent Colt Gray from doing what he did?
Despite all the advance knowledge, it is tragically apparent nothing was done.
Why not?
