Winder, Georgia —
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.
