Last May, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office received a tip from the FBI regarding a possible threat to shoot up a middle school that came from a Discord chat group, and interviewed Colt Gray and his father, Colin.
On May 21, an investigator looking into the tip went to the Grays’ home in Jefferson, Georgia. Colin told the investigator that he didn’t have a Discord account, and his son, who was 13 at the time, said he had deleted his.
“Colt 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,” the incident report obtained by NBC News said.
The father told the investigator he had hunting rifles in the home, and Colt was “allowed to use them when supervised, but does not have unfettered access to them,” the report said.
Three tips had come to the FBI from different IP addresses — two from different California cities and one from western Australia. The tip said that the Discord account was associated with the email “[email protected]” which was owned by Colt Gray, according to the FBI’s information. IP addresses from the account showed it was used in two different Georgia cities and possibly from Buffalo, New York.
Included in the tip were several photo attachments that showed a user profile name written in Russian — which when translated spelled the name Lanza, referring to the Sandy Hook elementary school shooter.
When confronted about it, Colin Gray said he didn’t know the email associated with the account and said his son doesn’t know Russian. The investigator reported that Colin said his son had “some problems at West Jackson Middle School and now that he is going to Jefferson Middle School it has gotten better.”
Ultimately due to the “inconsistent nature” of the FBI information, it couldn’t be substantiated whether Colt or Colin were behind the Discord account.
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