good evening we wanted to come back and and update you on the progress of the case this evening I appreciate you being here in coordination with the district attorne with district attorney Brad Smith the gbi has arrested Colin Gray age 54 in connection to the shooting here at appalache High School School Colin is col Gray's father that was arrested yesterday he is charged with the following four counts of involuntary manslaughter two counts of second deegree murder and eight counts of Cruelty to Children Mr Gray these charges stem from Mr Gray knowingly allowing his son cope to possess a weapon this is a very difficult time as we know for students and parents and so many I know of students and parents here in this County and around this state are afraid you all have likely seen reports of incidents of other students making threats today at various schools around our state in each of these incidents police law enforcement took charges they made arrest acted very swiftly as we take incidents like this very seriously across this state this is a time for all of us as a community and a state to come together and remain Vigilant students must be supported and encouraged here in this community across the state to contact a member of their School faculty with any and all concerns of suspicious activity that they may see local state and federal law enforcement will continue to work around uh to together Around the Clock in relation to this incident here and any other incidents that come up around this state that raise concern to the safety of our students faculty and citizens here in the state of Georgia additionally Colt gray that was arrested yesterday for this incident has now been charged with four counts of felony murder uh and again we will continue to work tirelessly to uh finish complete this investigation uh as we move forward I will go ahead and mention to you and as as I say sometimes I'm go ahead and apologize to you as y'all all know that this is this is a murder investigation it is a very serious investigation one that we take Serious one that we will continue to diligently work on and be very thorough with it uh with the gbi and our local Partners here so uh you'll have to forgive us if we don't answer a lot of the questions that you ask I know you have many and and we wish we could answer many of them for you but we still obviously want to maintain the Integrity of this investigation uh because it has a long way to go for it to be finished again I also want to remind everyone that uh we need to continue to pray and support the victims that were involved here the school uh teachers The Faculty the students obviously those that lost their lives their families and the uh those that were injured uh so I'd like to call on on the sh Sheriff to uh to come and give you a brief update on the status of those that were injured from yesterday's event thank you thank you director hos um as director hosie said I'd like to uh to say that obviously we we're lifting up those families our hearts are hurting for them our kids our students our teachers uh but the the nine injured I am very happy to say we'll make a full recovery uh and that's the Testament to the response that we had in my opinion response that medical staff happened that responded with in my opinion and we're very happy to say that they will make a full recovery uh after that that response um again please lift up our community please keep these children these teachers we call them teachers but I call them Heroes um we met with them today emotions are very very high obviously but we told them that we love them we love our teachers and what they do and we're very happy at the fact that they stood in the gap between evil to protect their children and we want to include them in the save the lives that were saved as well yesterday but I wanted to report to you that all nine people that are injured will will expect to make a full recovery thank you are they still in the hospital several of them are still in the hospital some have been released well I'm I'm going leave it as how I mentioned it in the in the release that he knowingly allowed him to possess the weapon can you tell us the arrest to I'm honestly not familiar with the details uh all I can tell you is that he is in custody at this time it's it's difficult to say at this point in time we're obviously still investigating this following All Leads all evidence and we'll set to see where it takes us as we progress forward the arrest was made when we had the probable cause to make the arrest I'm not sure no I'm not sure about that either I'm sorry are you able to explain chares more chares uh not in great detail the the biggest thing as I mentioned earlier uh is that he is in custody at this point in time his charges are directly connected with uh the actions of his son and allowing him to possess a weapon he'll be held in the bar count detention it depends on how long takes us to book him but if if it's available we can get that to y'all tonight if not tomorrow I don't want to speak to that because I don't know the exact number but I know that I want to just report that all now would make a full recovery and be able to leave the hospital I believe uh I believe one two two were adult teachers and the rest which would be seven would be students I'm sorry I don't have any details on any history of it but I would venture to say it's not something new can you uses no ma'am that's part of the ongoing investigation I apologize after all this time with being able to talk with investigators were pretty yesterday saying wasil sad obious well we're what we're facing heartbreak we're heartbroken a young person brought a gun into a school committed an evil act and he took lives and he injured many other people not only physically but mentally but I'm proud of bar County I'm proud of our superintendent I'm proud of these teachers I'm proud of these schools and I'm proud of where I live and we'll get past this you see behind me up here on the hill we got a visual going on at our flag pole I welcome you to go see those kids and those young people that are hurting director can you expain I think I answered that earlier uh our investigation is still ongoing uh so uh we'll see where things go with our investigation and I'm I'll leave it at that thank you so much that's all we have for tonight continue to follow gbi on X please monitor our website um we did not anticipate another update but as you can see it's fluid things are developing again we appreciate your patience and your support and your continued prayers for for the victims thank you