Colt Gray's aunt told police she had “fears” he was the Georgia school shooter

A woman claiming to be Colt Gray's aunt told police in the hours after the bloodshed that she was “concerned” her nephew was the gunman in the Georgia high school shooting, a report said.

The woman tearfully told police that Gray sent his mother a threatening text message before four people were killed at Apalachee High School. The school announced Friday that it will remain closed until Sept. 23.

“Hey, um, my mom just texted me and said that my nephew texted his mom and dad this morning and told them he was really sorry and that he was going to high school in Apalachee,” Gray's aunt told police, who gave only the name Annie, according to dispatch reports obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Annie's call was timestamped at 11:46 a.m. September 4, nearly an hour and a half after Gray allegedly slaughtered two students and two teachers with an AR-15 rifle his father had given him for Christmas.

When the woman called, the teenager was already in police custody, but his identity was still a secret.

“My mom just called me and said that Colt texted his mom, my sister and his dad saying he was sorry. They then called the school and told the counselor to pick him up immediately. Then she said she saw there was a shooting and I'm just worried it was him,” Annie said on the phone call.

Annie desperately asked the dispatcher to contact her sister, who she identified as Marcee, before giving her sister's phone number.

The dispatcher then promised her that someone would contact her.

The call confirms The Post's earlier reporting that Gray sent Marcee Gray a message saying “I'm sorry, Mom” ​​before allegedly carrying out the massacre.

After receiving Colt's text message, Marcee rushed to her car and tried to warn school officials about the haunting, but school staff mistakenly took the backpack of another child with a similar name who had also left the classroom shortly before the shots were fired.

Four people were killed in the shooting: students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo (both 14), math teacher Cristina Irimie (53) and assistant football coach Richard “Ricky” Aspinwall (39). Nine other people were injured.

Apalachee High School announced Friday that it plans a “phased return to school” for the week of Sept. 23, more than two weeks after the tragedy.

The school will provide on-campus psychological support and space for relocated classes when students return to classrooms, Principal Jessica Rehberg said in a message to the community.

About 1,900 students attend Apalachee High School.

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“I know that you, like me, are experiencing a range of emotions as you try to make sense of the tragedy that has struck our community,” Rehberg wrote. “While we may never find the perfect words or answers to the questions and challenges that lie before us, I believe that we are stronger together.”

All other schools in Barrow County reopened on Tuesday after being closed for three days following the shooting.

Gray, who reportedly told authorities “it was me” immediately after the incident, was charged as an adult with four counts of murder.

His father, Colin Gray, was also arrested for giving his troubled son a gun. He was charged with four counts of manslaughter, two counts of first-degree murder and eight counts of child abuse.