The mother of Georgia school sh*ooting suspect Colt Gray claimed that teachers had noticed her son was making references to violence at the school — even before she called to warn administrators about him.
Marcee Gray received an alarming text message from her son on the morning of the sh*ooting, reading, “I’m sorry,” which prompted her frantic call to the school around 9:50 a.m. to check on the 14-year-old.
She clled the school counselor, and Marcee Gray said the call only worsened her panic.
“The counselor said, ‘I wanted to let you know that earlier this morning, one of Colt’s teachers had sent me an email saying Colt had been making references to school sh*ootings,’” Marcee Gray said in a video interview from her home.
“Between my gut feelings, the text messages, and now this email, you need to, like, run to the classroom,” she said.
Gray later told her sister, Annie Brown, in a text message that she alerted the counselor that it was an “extreme emergency” and that the school should “immediately” take steps to find the boy.
Authorities said Colt Gray opened fire about 30 minutes after his mother’s warnings. They said school resource officers tried to track down Colt in his classroom, but stopped a different student with a similar name instead.
Minutes later, the first s*hots echoed through the halls of the high school in a mass sh*ooting that would see two teachers and two students k*illed and nine others injured.
Colt surrendered after being confronted by a school security officer and was quickly taken into custody.
Speaking of the two students and two teachers ki*lled in the massacre, Marcee Gray told the network during the emotional interview, “If I could take their place, I would. I would in a heartbeat.”
There were worrisome rumblings at the school that day even before Gray’s attempt to sound the alarm about the impending calamity.
Cops said an unknown person had called Apalachee Wednesday morning claiming it would be the first of five schools targeted in a series of mass sho*otings that day.
Apalachee High School did not immediately respond .
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesperson directed The Post’s inquiry to the Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office — which includes Barrow County where Apalachee High is located.
The Barrow County DA’s office also did not respond in time for publication.
Colt Gray has been charged with four counts of felony mur*der.
His father, Colin, 54, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree mur*der, and eight counts of cruelty to children.
Both made their initial court appearances on Sept. 6 and did not enter a plea.
They are being held without bail, and are next scheduled to appear at Barrow County courthouse Dec. 4.
