[FoxNews liveblog] AUTHORITIES RELEASE MUGSHOT OF FATHER OF ALLEGED TEEN SHOOTER
Georgia authorities released a mugshot of the father of the teen who allegedly killed four people at a high school.
Colin Gray, 54, faces multiple charges over the alleged actions of his son, Colt Gray, 14, including four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.
On Thursday, authorities said the elder Gray knowingly allowed his son to possess a weapon.
He is being held at the Barrow County jail.
CHARGES AGAINST FATHER OF ALLEGED SCHOOL SHOOTER A NEW APPROACH TO CURBING SIMILAR INCIDENTS: LAWYER
The charges against the father of the suspected shooter accused of killing four people at a Georgia high is an example of a new approach by authorities to curb similar incidents, a legal expert told Fox News Digital.
Colin Gray, 54, has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children. On Thursday, authorities said the charges are connected to the possession of a weapon by Gray's son, Colt Gray, who allegedly killed two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School and wounded nine others.
“This was done by authorities in Michigan who successfully prosecuted the parents of a teen who killed four students using a firearm his parents purchased for him,” said David Gelman, a criminal defense attorney and former deputy district attorney.
Jennifer and James Crumbley were convicted in April of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced 10 years in prison after prosecutors said they kept an unsecured gun at home and showed indifference toward their son's mental health. Ethan Crumbley killed four students at a high school in 2021.
Colin Gray's case is different because he also faces murder charges, said Gelman.
“The charge of murder may be challenging to prove as this charge contemplates malice aforethought, as opposed to involuntary manslaughter which does not require a specific intention to cause death,” he said.
GEORGIA OFFICERS INTERVIEWED APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT IN 2023, COULD NOT SUBSTANTIATE
Jackson County, Georgia, officers in 2023 spoke face-to-face with the boy who is now charged with felony murder in the deaths of four at Apalachee High School in Winder on Wednesday.
The sheriff's officers described their interactions in a detailed investigation report from May 21, 2023, when suspect Colt Gray was 13 years old, after being tipped off by the FBI about a threat on the messaging app Discord of a threat to shoot up a middle school. Discord is popular with some video gamers.
Gray said he had previously deleted a Discord account and denied that he would make such a threat, "even in a joking manner," according to the report.
Gray's father, Colin, told the officers that he had hunting rifles in the house but that his son "does not have unfettered access to them." The two guns were both "locked away," the father told them. Authorities have said the shooting was carried out with an AR-style rifle.
Jackson County investigators could not substantiate the Discord threat, which came from a user profile that spelled Lanza in Russian, according to the report. Adam Lanza perpetrated the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
The officer also found that the information sent to the FBI was communicated via various IP addresses across the world: Palmdale, California; Los Angeles; and Cockburn, Australia.
He also reviewed the email address and phone number related to the case as well as the user profile linked to the threats.
AUTHORITIES RELEASE FIRST MUGSHOTS OF ALLEGED GEORGIA HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTER
APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING SUSPECT CHARGED WITH FELONY MURDER AHEAD OF FIRST COURT APPEARANCE
Apalachee High School shooting suspect Colt Gray has been charged with multiple counts of felony murder ahead of his first court appearance Friday, officials say.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says "the autopsies of the four victims" who were killed in the Apalachee High School shooting "will be performed today at the GBI Medical Examiner’s Office."
"The investigation into the shooting at Apalachee High School is still active and ongoing," it added. "This is day 2 of a very complex investigation and the integrity of the case is paramount. We ask for the public’s patience as we work to ensure a successful prosecution and justice for the victims."
Gray's court appearance is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.
FBI SAYS LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT INVESTIGATED GA SHOOTER IN 2023, FOUND NO PROBABLE CAUSE
Local law enforcement officers with the sheriff's department conducted a deeper investigation and interviewed the father of the suspect, documented in a report that could not substantiate the threats.
During the investigation, the suspect "expressed concern that someone is accusing him of threatening to shoot up a school, stating that he would never say such a thing, even in a joking manner," according to a report from the interviews.
The officer investigating the anonymous tips found that the information sent to the FBI was communicated via various IP addresses across the world: Palmdale, California; Los Angeles, California; and Cockburn, Australia. He also reviewed the email address and phone number related to the case — as well as the user profile linked to the threats.
The profile name, written in Russian, referenced the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
"[The Apalachee suspect] stated he stopped using Discord because too many people kept hacking his account, and he was afraid someone would use his information for nefarious purposes," according to the report.
GEORGIA INVESTIGATORS SAY SUSPECTED SHOOTER'S PARENTS 'HAVE BEEN COOPERATIVE UP UNTIL THIS POINT'
A spokesperson for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation tells Fox News Digital that the parents of suspected Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray "have been cooperative up until this point."
The comment came in response to a question regarding whether authorities are investigating Gray's parents in the wake of Wednesday's attack, which left four dead and nine others injured.
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M. Scott Peck's "People of the Lie" had a very interesting anecdote about "a pair of blue-collar parents who obliviously give as a "gift" to their adolescent son the same gun with which his older brother had recently committed suicide" I first read that about 40 years ago. Close analogies keep popping up in crime news...
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Re: Death Penalty. Judge had to reverse himself as kid's too young for a formal DP, but eligible for an effective life sentence.
You can however put him in company that would make him wish he was dead
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Ref #6 above
A wardrobe change may be in the offing once GenPop Jamal notices the new meat.
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Annndd...looking like if you picked a triple letter score, collect your earnings for tranny, or at least an activist. 14, could he have been totally on his meds? Son of Meth? Both?
[MAIL] A photo of a plus-sized passenger struggling to fit between the armrests on a plane has sparked a fierce debate over whether obese travellers should have to pay for an extra seat.
The man was snapped by a fellow traveller as he squeezed into his aisle seat during a flight from Helsinki to Copenhagen on
'This guy sat behind me on my flight from Helsinki to Copenhagen yesterday,' the man who took the photo wrote on Facebook.
'I felt sorry for him and the guy next to him in the middle seat, both of whom must have felt very uncomfortable for the short flight.
'Maybe it's time for airlines to address situations like this in a thoughtful and sensitive way.'
The man said the larger passenger was 'protruding into the aisle' forcing others to squeeze around him on their way to the bathroom.
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Long time past 'accommodating' every special interest minorities. It's a self inflicted wound, take a ferry. Next demand car companies make drivers seats for the morbidly obese. Well, what about short skinny ones needing boosters? It's like the amusement rides - you have to be 'this' tall to ride.
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Kind of tired with the ill telling the healthy how to live.
The only practical solution to what these emotionally abusive bullies want is to have 2 and 3 seat benches located right at the passenger loading door. Because these seats are only safe for those of such size, everyone pays extra to cover the cost of those seats if they are not filled. If they are booked, they pay for those seats anyways. Now, this is usually Business or First Class, so what is the charge? If the benches are booked, have to catch another flight, potentially breaking up a traveling group.
Or run passengers through a fit box like with the carry on and call anyone who can't do that the safety hazard they are. I don't mean just mobility, got someone's flesh all over you who can't maintain their own hygiene.
Time to get healthy again. I'll start taking their medical condition seriously when they start taking it seriously. I've seen people do the fight and win. It is possible. It does take work.
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The obese pictured passenger is out of line here, of course.
On the other hand, I'm well within the normal range of height and weight (6', lt 190lbs), and airplane seats cramp me in every direction but up--and on small craft "up" is a problem when I try to stand.
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If you need two seats you should have to buy two tickets. No different than the overweight luggage charge.
Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains
occurred in construction and health care.
Both the unemployment rate, at 4.2 percent, and the number of unemployed people, at 7.1 million, changed little in August. These measures are higher than a year earlier, when the jobless rate was 3.8 percent, and the number of unemployed people was 6.3 million.
-------------- 1st para summarizes the payroll survey [a healthy economy would produce 300k+ new jobs], 2nd para summarizes the household survey. Additional info in the report includes a decrease in previously reported job gains in June and July (which weren't that great to begin with), a slight decrease in temporary layoffs, a decent increase in average wage and a small increase in the average workweek. It increases the odds that the Fed will make a 50 basis point decrease in the Federal funds rate in two weeks.
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Really? Oh Noos. I am shocked!
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Regarding the payroll survey- probably there are some illegals in the payroll numbers, all the big employers use E-Verify and most of the smaller ones do also. However, there are some loopholes and techniques to evade detection. There are some AI methods to spot these but they are not mandated and few companies use them.
Regarding the household survey - could be some illegal employees, for example, an illegal residing in a household with legal immigrants. It would be quite difficult to do an analysis of this.
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I should probably add that its almost certain that a lot of illegals are employed in landscaping, nursing and health care and hospitality (I saw one estimate that in NYC there are probably over 1000 illegals working as dishwashers in restaurants). I'm not sure if they are counted in the BLS data. Also a lot of people work for companies like instacart, uber, etc. where they may be double counted (by the employer of the service and by the company).
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Wait wait wait wait...you mean we can't just print money endlessly while making it as difficult as possible for actual working Americans to actually *produce* something that can then be actually paid for and sold...for years on end...without it affecting the economic numbers???
I swear liberals are stupid as fuck, and their leaders know better but are so deep in the grift that they have never bothered to care.
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[RIA] Europe suffers its first losses in the economic standoff with China. The German concern Volkswagen AG is forced to close its factories due to the inability to compete with Chinese products. And this is largely Brussels' fault. RIA Novosti reports on how events are unfolding. DISTURBING NEWS
This has never happened before in the history of the German auto giant, notes Bloomberg. The conditions are getting tougher, there are more and more players on the market, complains the CEO of the concern Oliver Bloom. It is simply unprofitable to do business in Germany: energy and labor are becoming more expensive. And purchasing power is not increasing - German electric cars are not being bought. Thus, in 2023, only ten million units were assembled with a capacity of 14 million.
Volkswagen Group's EU sales fell 2.2% year-on-year in July, according to a report from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA).
So far, the talk is about stopping two enterprises - assembly and spare parts production. People will have to be sacrificed as well. Retiring some is not enough; the company is going to lift the 1994 moratorium on job cuts. And the concern employs about 300 thousand people.
The authorities are alarmed. Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stefan Weil agreed that "measures must be taken" but would prefer less radical options. "We hope it won't come to a closure," he said.
But Brussels has seriously increased import duties on electric cars from China: up to 38.1%. Moreover, the European Commission declared this "fair competition".
The Chinese are dumping "at the expense of huge state subsidies," claimed EC President Ursula von der Leyen.
Beijing was outraged and complained to the WTO.
China's Ministry of Commerce is currently auditing EU farm products - dairy products and pork - whose producers were subsidized by Brussels, covering 20% of the costs, Beijing claims.
"Formally, the payments will indeed be maintained until the end of the year, but due to the "green transition" it is becoming increasingly difficult to receive them. A farm that suffered from market shocks, including sanctions, may be allocated up to 280 thousand euros, and a fishing farm - up to 335," says Mikhail Khachaturyan, PhD in economics and associate professor of the Department of Strategic and Innovative Development at the Financial University. He believes that the subsidies will be extended, but the amounts will be reduced.
As practice has shown, China's retaliatory actions are extremely destructive. Associate Professor of the Department of Strategic and International Management at the Higher School of Business at the National Research University Higher School of Economics Igor Stroganov reminds us: sanctions against Californian farmers have ruined many.
"China avoids direct economic confrontation until the very end. But then it consistently and carefully presses on the main pain points. The blow to the dairy industry is quite unpleasant for the European Union: for many years, dairy products were the main driver of foreign sales," he comments.
Khachaturyan believes that protective duties will reduce European exports to China by 15-20%.
A PUNCH TO THE GUT
Another sensitive area is germanium and gallium, which are needed to make solar panels, fiber optics, night vision devices, and, most importantly, advanced microprocessors. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that China produces 98 percent of the world's gallium and 60 percent of its germanium.
Last year, Beijing cut exports by nearly half in response to U.S. restrictions on semiconductor sales. And prices in the industry doubled.
The US was helped by cooperation with Vietnam. "In addition, America has its own deposits capable of providing 80-85% of needs, the rest can easily be bought in Canada, Japan and South Korea," Khachaturyan explains. Except Greenies and Enviroloons will sue to stop any domestic mining. All indigenous sacred sites, I'm sure
But in Europe the situation is different. The deficit of rare earth metals can complicate the production of high-tech products, including for the military-industrial complex. "Microprocessors, fiber-optic products, solar panels and night vision devices for the mass market were made in China," Stroganov notes.
However, it will not be possible to increase its own capacities. "The Belgian concern Umicore is loaded to the limit, and there are no others. The technologies for obtaining gallium and germanium are specific, and are not suitable for every metallurgical or chemical enterprise," explains independent industrial expert Leonid Khazanov.
The US, Canada, Finland, South Korea and Japan will not help out - their deposits are small, experts add. In addition, the bulk goes to the domestic market, so Beijing can tighten the technological noose around the EU's neck as much as it wants.
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Part of the problem is, most manufacturers want to sell higher priced models. They don't like to provide the basic low end models, because profits are low at the margin.
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Money is power, the less power EU psychopaths have to interfere in World affairs - the better off the World.
Problem is, China gets more money and more power while US and EU lose.
Whatever happened to the approach we took with the USSR? Seemed like it was a smashing success, so much so that the Berlin wall fell and the USSR went kaput. Why doesn't China get the same treatment? Perhaps they offered better bribes to Western policy makers than the Soviets?
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Part of the problem is, most manufacturers want to sell higher priced models. They don't like to provide the basic low end models, because profits are low at the margin.
Yeah, remember the old VW bugs and buses? They were cute and they were cheap. Never mind that they ran like crap. You could drop a new engine into it and keep going. People just couldn't get enough of them. Now VWs look like all the other cars on the road and they cost just as much. The mystic is gone.
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Grom, the reason Henry Ford had to sell to the masses was he needed to create a market where there wasn't one. There were no "mass use" cars when he started, so he had to bring the concept into being. That was the genius.
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Compare and contrast Ford, Musk, Trump, Rockefeller.
[BNN] Albania's President Bajram Begaj arrived in Estonia on Thursday for a high-level visit aimed at reinforcing ties with Estonia and advancing Albania's European Union (EU) accession efforts.
In Tallinn, Begaj held talks with his Estonian counterpart Alar Karis, where Karis reiterated Estonia's strong support for the Western Balkan nations' integration into the EU, highlighting Albania's strategic role.
"Integrating the Western Balkans into the European Union is an investment in Europe's overall peace," Karis emphasized during the meeting, pointing to the importance of regional stability amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.
Begaj further engaged in talks with Estonia's parliamentary speaker, Lauri Hussar, focusing on security cooperation, economic relations, and shared support for Ukraine.
The visit follows Begaj's recent diplomatic engagements in Latvia earlier this week.
Indian police on Thursday said they were compiling lists of right-wing Hindu "cow vigilantes" after a young man falsely accused of smuggling beef was rubbed out.
The killing last month of 19-year-old Aryan Mishra in northern Haryana state has sparked unusual outrage — much of it because the young man was a Hindu.
Cows are venerated as sacred by the country's Hindu majority, and their slaughter is illegal in many Indian states.
The authorities are often accused of failing to rein in Hindu hardliners, who form gangs of "cow vigilantes" to attack people accused of involvement in cattle slaughter — with several deaths reported each year.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has in the past condemned attacks on cattle traders and beef-eaters, but critics say that bully boyz have been emboldened by the Hindu nationalist rhetoric of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Many of those accused of transporting or killing cows are from India's 220-million-strong Moslem community, with social media awash with videos boasting of vigilante attacks.
Mishra was killed on a highway on August 24 after an armed mob chased his car for 50 kilometres (31 miles), believing he was transporting beef.
Five people have been arrested in connection with the killing, and senior Haryana police officer Aman Yadav said the force was preparing a "list of cow vigilantes" to track their movements.
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I see a Chik-Fil-A ad coming
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Wouldn't happen if the cows were armed.
Wait....maybe not such a good idea..
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