Marcee Gray, 43, is accused of taping her mother to a chair during a drug-induced rage.
The mother of the accused gunman in the mass shooting at Apalachee High School this month has been arrested on charges of elder abuse stemming from an incident in 2023, when she is said to have taped her mother to a chair, local news media reported.
Marcee Gray, 43, was reportedly indicted on Sept. 16 and charged with elder abuse, false imprisonment, theft and damaging property, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Ms. Gray’s 14-year-old son, Colt, is being charged as an adult for murder in the deadliest school shooting in Georgia’s history. He is accused of bringing an AR-15-style rifle to Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., earlier this month, killing four — two students and two math teachers — and injuring at least nine.
Ms. Gray called her son’s school minutes before the shooting, warning of an “extreme emergency,” relatives said. She was estranged from her ex-husband, Colin Gray, with whom their son lived. She pleaded guilty in December to charges of criminal damage and trespassing and was ordered to pay damages to the construction company with whom Mr. Gray worked.
A phone call to a number listed for Ms. Gray went unanswered.
Mr. Gray, 54, has separately been charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and cruelty to children in the Apalachee shooting. The authorities say Mr. Gray purchased an Armalite-style rifle for his son, even after the authorities investigated the boy for making threats online to “shoot up a school.”
The unrelated incident with which Ms. Gray was charged last week occurred in November 2023, when she — in what she described to The Journal-Constitution as a drug-fueled psychosis episode — tried to get her mother to accompany her to Mr. Gray’s home to see her children shortly after he took physical custody of them.
When her 73-year-old mother refused, Ms. Gray is said to have thrown her against a wall and taped her to an armchair so she would not interfere with her visit to the ex-husband’s house. Ms. Gray later informed a family friend that her mother was trapped, and the friend released the woman after almost 24 hours.
“What I put my mother through is inexcusable and horrifying,” Ms. Gray told The Journal-Constitution.
Ms. Gray said that at the time of the incident she was high on methamphetamines. She has been sober for 11 months, she added, and her relationship with her mother is “stronger than ever.”
Still, if convicted, Ms. Gray could face up to 20 years in prison.
Mr. Gray and his son both appeared in court on Sept. 6.
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