BARROW COUNTY, Ga. — Jurors started day four watching deputy body camera video of the encounter with Colin Gray after the school shooting.
Channel 2’s Courtney Francisco was in the Barrow County courthouse as the footage was played.
Deputies showed up at the Gray home around noon that day to question him.
When he walked outside, Gray is heard on camera telling deputies, “God, I knew it. My little girl just texted.”
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In court, testimony revealed that the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services had investigated Colt Gray being physically abused by his mother.
The witness told the court that he’d been enrolled in counseling as a result, but that when his father moved him, he stopped attending counseling sessions.
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He said, “I’m like, God almighty, please tell me your brother didn’t do something.”
A deputy is heard on the recording asking Gray why he thought that.
He responded, “We tried to get him into counseling. He just didn’t fit in last year in high school.”
He told deputies the school year this year was going okay.
“I filled out some paperwork the other day for another, a third party, counseling to get involved. I think it was called Aware. But, basically, gave them permission to go and talk to Colt,” said Gray.
The defense had no cross-examination questions after that video.
While discussing Colt Gray’s school activities, before he was enrolled in Barrow County, a school principal from Jackson County said Colt struggled to fit in and was described as a bully, getting into fights.
Colt was said to have vandalized bathrooms and drawn a swastika on a calculator.
“We felt like he was struggling to fit in and needed a person to check in with,” Jefferson Middle School Principal Carol Ann Knight told the court.
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