Colt gray a 14-year-old student used an AR-15 he received as a Christmas gift from his father to carry out a deadly shooting at appalache High School in wender Georgia Colin Gray Colt's father acknowledged purchasing the gun for his son but has not commented publicly on the shooting law enforcement sources confirmed on September 5th that the son received the firearm as a gift this past December this was just months after he and his father were questioned by the FBI regarding online threats made on the gaming social media platform Discord according to the Sheriff's Office incident report the teenager was questioned after the sheriff received an FBI tip that the son who was 13 at the time had possibly threatened to shoot up a middle school tomorrow despite the FBI's involvement no charges were filed at the time due to a lack of solid evidence connecting the Sun to the threats the Discord account had been accessed from multiple locations and the sun denied making the threats telling police his account had been hacked in a previous interview with law enforcement the father assured officers that his son understood the seriousness of weapons and that he would confiscate all guns if the threats were proven true police reports revealed that investigators closed the case after they couldn't confirm a connection between the Sun and the Discord account they also found no evidence to justify seeking a court order to confiscate the family's guns the tragedy left two 14-year-old students Mason shermerhorn and Christian Angulo and two teachers Richard aspenwall 39 and Christina iry 53 dead [Music]