mother of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray He once described himself as a victim of abuse and claimed online that his kids were “wonderful” — around the same time authorities visited his son to investigate his alleged threat to carry out a school shooting.
Marcy Gray's social media is filled with detailed accounts of her ex-husband's abusive parenting and their own tumultuous relationship in the months since she announced she had left him.
“I packed up my stuff and my kids and moved to my hometown in South GA. We are all good and my kids are thriving,” said Marcy, who lives with her children His rap sheet spans nearly two decadesWritten on LinkedIn in May 2023.
The announcement of her departure from the family home came after Marcy, 43, wrote an article about husband Collin’s childhood, in which she said he suffered “severe physical abuse” as a child.
“As for my husband's first memory, all he knows is abuse. … I'm talking about everything from a broken arm at age 8 to getting his head smashed in with a bar stool while he was fast asleep,” she wrote on Facebook in November 2022.
“I still rub my fingers over the scars/dents on his head and think to myself 'How?! I can't even understand this!'…This is what substance abuse does. Mothers, fathers, spouses, siblings…you name it and it will get to them.”
“I know this is hard to understand from the outside looking in. Everyone in mine and his family didn't understand why I stayed so long,” she wrote in a separate post, adding, “Ultimately it was my own decision.”
In another social media message, Marcy wrote, “No one but me can understand the pain my husband goes through every day. Every single person in his life has hurt or betrayed him.”
“And I truly believe that God sent me to him because no one else was strong enough to be there for him through all the tough times. I'm not going to leave him now … we're just taking a break,” she added.
A month later, the couple, who have three children, called it quits.
“I finally separated from my abusive husband of 14 years … it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but we’re in good hands,” she said. wrote on linkedin,
Her emotional posts seemed to hide Marcy Gray's chaotic life.
Her arrest record includes charges of drug possession, aggravated assault, burglary, and criminal trespass, and she once “threatened to kill her husband” during an incident, Sources told the Daily Mail.
Gray also “tied up” his elderly mother and left her alone for 24 hours, the outlet reported without providing further details.
Marcy Gray's most recent jail visit was in April in Barrow County, where she was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine, fentanyl and muscle relaxants.
He was also charged in adjacent Fitzgerald County with aggravated assault, burglary, criminal trespass, false imprisonment and failure to appear in January.
An arrest warrant obtained by the Daily Mail revealed that Gray had a glass jar containing methamphetamine, a “baggie” containing fentanyl, another “baggie” containing several muscle relaxants, and a glass pipe “used for drug abuse.”
Gray was sentenced to five years in prison, with the first 46 days to be spent behind bars and the rest on probation, the outlet reported.
Gray could not be reached by The Post on Saturday, neither by phone nor at his address in the small town of Fitzgerald, about three miles south of Atlanta.
The Nissan Rogue was parked in the driveway, but no one answered the door. An arrest warrant issued for Marcy last year said he had concealed the identity of his Nissan Rogue by using a Nissan Kicks tag.
While Marcy was bragging about her fresh start, Colt Visits by local police for allegedly threatening to shoot up his middle school on Discord.
Colin Gray told police he had recently separated from the mother of his son, and “she took his younger two children.” Colt apparently stayed with her.
Colt, 14, faces four counts of aggravated murder for Wednesday's shooting, while his father is accused of shooting his son. AR-15 style rifle The weapon used in the massacre — has been charged with four counts of second-degree involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Collin Gray told sheriff's investigators his son was not the kind of person to threaten violence.
The father told police, “He's not alone, officer. Don't get it,” adding, “He just wants to go to school, do his job, and he doesn't want any trouble.”
He also said he knew nothing about threats made by Colt, adding, “I'd be very angry if he did that, and then all the guns would disappear.”
Additional reporting by Stephen Vago.
