Mom of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray pens groveling letter to parents of his victims a week after rampage

The mother of suspected Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray wrote a groveling letter apologizing to the victims’ families, saying her son “is not a monster.”

Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student at the school, was charged as an adult with the murders of two students and two teachers following the horrific September 4 shooting that also left nine people injured.

In the letter, the teen’s mother, Marcee Gray, 43, wrote that she had warned the school of an “extreme emergency” before her son opened fire. She also told the families that “love is the only thing that will get us through this tragedy” and asked them to “pray” for Colt and their family.

“I would like to extend my sincere condolences to the parents and families of those affected by the tragic events at Apalachee High School,” Gray wrote.

“If I could take Mason and Christian’s place, I would do so without hesitation. As a parent, I have always said that losing one of my children is the one thing I could never recover from. I feel all of your pain and devastation.

“I grieve and cry with you. My heart breaks for the two teachers who gave their lives in the service of teaching and protecting our children.”

Mason Schermerhorn, 14, an autistic student, was the first victim to be identified. Student Christian Angulo, 14, also lost his life.

Teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie also died in the tragedy.

Colt is charged with four counts of murder, while his father, Colin Gray, 54, was arrested and charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second-degree murder. It is also alleged that he gave his son the AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre.

Colin, who was branded “evil” by his former father-in-law, is also facing eight counts of child abuse.

Both father and son face life imprisonment.

Colin’s ex-father-in-law, Charles Polhamus, recently told DailyMail.com that Colin was the reason his grandson was driven to commit this horrific act.

He confirmed that Colin and his daughter Marcee had a tumultuous relationship and called her estranged husband a “narcissist” and “evil.”

Colt’s grandfather said the suspected shooter’s father “ruined” the teen because he needed “a more supportive environment.”

“He is an outright narcissist and he is finally getting what he deserves,” Polhamus told DailyMail.com.

Polhamus blamed Colt’s father for his actions, but said his grandson should be punished for the shooting.

He is also convinced that his troubled ex-son-in-law deserves the death penalty for his involvement.

“Spending 11 years with that bastard screaming and yelling every day, that could happen to anyone,” Polhamus said of Colt, according to the New York Post.

“He needs the death penalty.”

Polhamus previously told the Post that Colt apologized to his mother in a text message before the shooting, which prompted her to call the school.

“I’m sorry, Mom,” the text read.

Marcee then jumped in her car and started driving toward the school, more than three hours away. But halfway there, she learned that the tragedy she was trying to prevent had already occurred.

A counselor at the school told Marcee that her son had talked about the school shooting that morning, according to Gray’s sister, Annie Brown, who spoke to the Post.

Shortly after the shooting began, reports emerged that the high school had been warned that a tragedy could occur.

Marcee wrote in her messages to her family, “I was the one who notified the high school counselor.”

The lyrics provide a clearer picture of how Colt’s family understood his mental turmoil and how close school officials were to finding him before he reportedly opened fire.

In a conversation after the shooting, Marcee texted her sister, Annie Brown, saying she wondered why officers hadn’t found her son in time. She felt they had “a long time to intervene, so I’m curious to see what happened in that time.”

Further text messages from Marcee’s sister indicate that Colt’s school and family had also been in contact about his deteriorating mental health for at least a week before the shooting.

In one of the texts, Brown allegedly told a family member that Colt was having “homicidal and suicidal thoughts.”

“He should not have had a gun and he should have gone to THERAPY months ago,” she added in the text.

Brown said her cousin had been “begging” for mental health care for months, but the “adults around him abandoned him.”

Marcee had previously been ordered by the court to have limited contact with Colt’s father after she pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge in December.

The alleged shooter’s parents separated in 2022 after being deported. During the unrest, the family was involved with Georgia’s Child Protective Services.

Months later, in May 2023, the family was visited by local police after receiving a tip from the FBI about threats to commit a school shooting.

Colt denied making the threats and Colin told police he had hunting rifles in the house but his son was not allowed to use them unsupervised.