The mother of a 14-year-old Georgia student charged in the Apalachee High School shooting that left four people dead has been indicted in a 2023 domestic violence case filed by the mother, according to reports.
A grand jury on Monday indicted 43-year-old Marcie Gray on charges of exploitation and intimidation of disabled and elderly people, false imprisonment, criminal damage to property and theft, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday.
The charges are unrelated to the Sept. 4 shooting that her son, Colt, allegedly committed, that left teachers Christina Irimy, 53, and Richard Aspinwall, 39, dead, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Nine other students were injured in the shooting.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also arrested the boy’s father, Collin Gray, on September 5, and prosecutors have charged him with two counts of murder, four counts of manslaughter and eight counts of child abuse.
Gray faces up to 20 years in prison on the felony elder exploitation charge, according to the paper. USA Today could not reach Gray for comment.
The incident reportedly began when Gray attempted to get his mother, Deborah Polhamus, now 74, to accompany him to confront her ex-husband, Collin Gray, on Nov. 3, 2023. According to the paper, Polhamus refused to go along, and Gray then taped his 73-year-old mother to a chair for almost the entire day, took her cell phone and damaged her home in Fitzgerald, Georgia.
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The newspaper reported that a family friend found Polhamus the following day, on Nov. 4, 2023. That day, police said Marcy Gray wrecked Collin Gray’s work truck in Barrow County, about three and a half hours away, in a separate incident, according to court records.
Two days later, on Nov. 6, Barrow County sheriff’s deputies arrested Marcy Gray in a concealed Nissan Rogue with a different license plate and on suspicion of possession of fentanyl, methamphetamine and a muscle relaxant, according to court records.
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Prosecutors charged her in December with concealing license plates, criminal damage to property, trespassing and domestic violence. She pleaded guilty and a local judge sentenced her to five years in prison, with the first 46 days to be served in supervision, with credit for time served from Nov. 6, and the remaining time on probation.
Marcy Gray has reportedly apologized to parents and families affected by school shootings. The Washington Post reported that Marcy Gray notified the school of an “extreme emergency” on the morning of the shooting, telling staff they needed to find her son.
USA TODAY’s N’dea Yancey-Bragg and John Bacon contributed to this report.