On the day of the shooting, Marcee Gray testified Colin Gray told her he’d received “strange text messages” from their son.
“Reading the text messages, I could tell there was a tone to it,” she testified. “They were short … they weren’t normal Colt texts. You could tell something was not right.”
Colt texted his mother saying, “Acute mania sucks.”
His mother responded: “Acute mania is no joke.”
The texts go on to show Marcee texting her son: “But your dad mentioned that you were talking about acute mania last week. So I’ve been reading more about it since then.”
At 9:50 a.m., Marcee Gray said she spoke with Colt Gray’s guidance counselor, who said her son had just asked his first period teacher about active shooter drills.
“‘We need to cut this phone call off right now and y’all need to go locate my son and find out what’s going on,’” Marcee Gray said she told the counselor. She said she emphasized Colt Gray had access to firearms.
“I couldn’t hear urgency in her voice, and I said, ‘I need you to take this seriously; I need you to put down what you’re doing and go find him,’” Marcee Gray testified.
Colin Gray’s son, Colt Gray, allegedly carried out a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in 2024.
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