A school shooter's mother helped him reach his  fans' from prison. Here's why she wasn't charged.

For two days, she had mostly held her tongue as one witness after another laid out the horror of the Apalachee High School shooting in Winder, Georgia, in excruciating detail. But as the topic turned to the relationship school shooter Colt Gray had with his mother Marcee - the allegations of abuse and neglect and her chummy jail conversations with him after the shooting - Breanna Schermerhorn could no longer stay silent.

 She should be in jail now,  she said quietly but firmly to family members seated next to her in the second row of the court gallery.


The statement from the mother of Mason Schermerhorn, one of the four people shot to death by Colt Gray in school on September 4, 2024, is one that had been raised before, when Colt's father, Colin Gray, was charged with second-degree murder in his own landmark case after buying his son the AR-15-style rifle used in the shooting.

Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said at the time they had considered charges against Marcee Gray, but couldn't tie her criminally to the killings.

 At the end of the day, she did not have custody of Colt, she did not have proximity to Colt, and she was not the one that provided him the firearms,  he said in March.

After Colt Gray received sentences Tuesday totaling life without parole plus 20 years, Smith reiterated he will not be bringing criminal charges against his mother, Marcee Gray. Colt's father, Colin Gray, was sentenced to 15 years in prison two days later, as his lawyer announced plans to appeal.

 She took some steps - not many - but some steps to actually have the firearms removed, or ask the father to do that,  Smith said Tuesday.  So we don't believe we have the ability under the proximate cause (law) of Georgia to charge her with what happened at Apalachee. 

Disturbing jailhouse conversations don't connect mother to murders

Allegations of drug abuse and child neglect against Marcee Gray were already well established by the time her son Colt entered guilty pleas on 55 coun

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