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The mother of the Georgia teen accused of killing four people in a school shooting earlier this month has been indicted for allegedly taping her 73-year-old mother to a chair.

Marcee Gray, 43, allegedly taped Deborah Polhamus to a chair, stole her phone, and damaged her house during the November 3, 2023 incident, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.

Gray is the mother of Colt Gray, 14, who is charged with murder for allegedly opening fire on September 4 at Apalachee High School.


Gray’s ex-husband and Colt’s father Colin Gray has also been charged in connection with the shooting for allegedly giving his son access to the rifle used in the massacre.

The November confrontation between Gray and her mother began when Polhamus refused to go to Barrow County with Gray to confront her ex-husband, according to police.

“Marcee became upset and told Deborah that she was making her go with her because she was going to kill her ex,” the incident report, obtained by the AJC, reads.

“Deborah stated she refused to go and Marcee threw her up against the wall causing a cut on her left wrist. Marcee stated that since Deborah wasn’t going she was going to tie her to a chair and take her phone so she wouldn’t call anyone.”

The senior spent nearly 24 hours taped to the chair, only being discovered when another of her daughters became concerned she couldn’t reach the 73-year-old and sent someone to check on her at her home in Ben Hill County.…….

Mom of Georgia shooting suspect charged ‘after taping elderly relative to chair’

The 74-year-old spent almost 24 hours taped to chair, according to police

www.independent.co.uk

Man, we humans are a very flawed species. Makes you wonder how we've held it together as long as we have.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Man, we humans are a very flawed species. Makes you wonder how we've held it together as long as we have.

We are building up to the finale.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

We are building up to the finale.

wait, this isn't the finale?

 

[Sailorsaint]

wait, this isn't the finale?

Nope, just the prequel.

 

[Taurus]

guess this can go here

also should we have a separate general gun control/gun violence thread instead of just adding to this one?
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An 11-year-old boy was punished this month for reporting a classmate for having a bullet at school because, according to administrators, he waited too long to do so.

School officials at St. John the Apostle Catholic School in Virginia Beach suspended a sixth grader for 1½ days for waiting about two hours to report a bullet his friend had shown him, according to Tim Anderson, a lawyer representing the boy and his mother Rachel Wigand.

News of the boy’s punishment led last week to threats of violence against St. John’s, a two-day closure of the Catholic School and the arrest of a man in North Carolina accused of making the threats, all while administrators tried to reassure parents who might find the whirlwind “deeply unsettling.”

School officials defended the punishment, saying they held the boy accountable for the kind of delay that could have catastrophic consequences if not relayed to adults, citing the recent school shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., that killed four and injured nine. Anderson contended that punishing the boy for “doing the right thing” makes the school less safe by disincentivizing students from coming forward.

“The message it sends is, instead of ‘See something, say something,’ the kids are better off not saying anything,” Anderson said, adding that “it’s creating a more dangerous environment.”

The Catholic Diocese of Richmond, of which St. John’s is a part, defended punishing the boy.

“The school’s culture of safety requires that students and adults alike report potential threats as quickly as they are made aware of them; in a real emergency, gaps in reporting time — especially hours-long gaps — could have major consequences for school safety,” the diocese said in a statement.

On the morning of Sept. 5, Wigand’s son’s class prepared to take a standardized test by moving desks into a different formation, Anderson said, and while doing so, a classmate showed him a bullet. Wigand said the other boy was showing it off after finding it in his parents’ coin jar, and her son didn’t perceive it as a threat.

Even though he was shocked, he decided to wait until he could report the bullet anonymously, Wigand said. So he took the standardized math test for the next 1½ hours, then attended an art class which the boy with the bullet was also taking.

A fire drill followed, during which Wigand’s son went to interim principal Jennifer Davey to tell her about the bullet, Anderson said. Police came to the school, searched the other boy’s bag and found it, he added.

The principal commended Wigan’s son but also told him he was being suspended for two days because he hadn’t made the report immediately, Anderson said. The other boy was suspended for the same amount of time, he added.

Wigand said that when her son had told her why he’d been suspended, she suspected he wasn’t telling her everything and interrogated him.

“There’s no way somebody would suspend you for reporting something,” she said, describing her reaction at the time. “I couldn’t believe it.”

But Wigand confirmed what her son had told her when she spoke to the principal that night at a school open house. She reviewed the student handbook, found nothing about a requirement to report anything other than sexual harassment and pointed that out to school officials, Anderson said. The principal was nevertheless “adamant” that her son be punished, the lawyer said.............

MSN

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/09/17/bullet-suspension-virginia-beach/

Right then.

"Son, if it's not an actual loaded gun, your trap stays *shut*."

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here
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With a new academic year underway, schools across the U.S. are facing twin threats: the very real prospect of gun violence, as evidenced by the recent tragedy in Georgia, and a rising wave of hoax threats.

In the wake of the Apalachee High shooting, FBI Houston officials said they had gotten more hoax school threats in the following three weeks than in the previous three years.

A Missouri hotline has already gotten 301 potential school threats, nearing the total of the entire previous academic year. One Florida sheriff said 54 threats came through a state tip line on a single night this semester.

Lodi, California, has experienced threats both real and imagined since, to frightening results. On September 16, Lodi police arrested a 15-year in connection to threats against an unnamed local school, part of a wave of similar arrestsaround the Central Valley.

Two days later, an alarm tripped at Lodi High School, sending the campus into a full lockdown, prompting community members to panic. Lodi worried disaster had finally struck them too.

As police raced to campus, false rumors quickly spread on social media and between residents that one or maybe multiple suspects were on the scene and arrests had been made……….

Schools are bombarded with hoax shooting threats - and the semester has just begun

Students and teachers are already on edge because of the gun violence epidemic. The social media rumor mill is only making things worse, police and educators tell Josh Marcus

www.independent.co.uk

 

[DaveXA]

Guess this can go here
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With a new academic year underway, schools across the U.S. are facing twin threats: the very real prospect of gun violence, as evidenced by the recent tragedy in Georgia, and a rising wave of hoax threats.

In the wake of the Apalachee High shooting, FBI Houston officials said they had gotten more hoax school threats in the following three weeks than in the previous three years.

A Missouri hotline has already gotten 301 potential school threats, nearing the total of the entire previous academic year. One Florida sheriff said 54 threats came through a state tip line on a single night this semester.

Lodi, California, has experienced threats both real and imagined since, to frightening results. On September 16, Lodi police arrested a 15-year in connection to threats against an unnamed local school, part of a wave of similar arrestsaround the Central Valley.

Two days later, an alarm tripped at Lodi High School, sending the campus into a full lockdown, prompting community members to panic. Lodi worried disaster had finally struck them too.

As police raced to campus, false rumors quickly spread on social media and between residents that one or maybe multiple suspects were on the scene and arrests had been made……….

Schools are bombarded with hoax shooting threats - and the semester has just begun

Students and teachers are already on edge because of the gun violence epidemic. The social media rumor mill is only making things worse, police and educators tell Josh Marcus

www.independent.co.uk

I don't even know what to say. What the hell is wrong with people? I hope the FBI takes this case on and wrecks those idiots.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Two former Uvalde school police officers are set to return to court and face charges following their alleged failure to act during the deadly 2022 Robb Elementary School Texas shooting.

At a Uvalde court hearing on Thursday, Judge Sid Harle rejected 52-year-old former Uvalde schools police chief Pete Arredondo’s claim that he was improperly charged as his attorneys insist only the shooter was responsible for putting the victims in danger.

His co-defendant, former Uvalde schools police officer Adrian Gonzales, 51, has not requested his charges be dropped.


Judge Harle set an October 20 2025 trial in motion for the pair.

Both men previously pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of child endangerment and abandonment following accusations of a failed response during the harrowing attack on May 24 2022 – perpetrated by gunman Salvador Ramos, an ex-student, 18, who shot 19 children and two teachers dead.……

Judge rejects Uvalde’s cop’s innocence claims

Pete Arredondo, 52, claims he was improperly charged for the heinous attack that left 19 children and two teachers dead – his co-defendant Adrian Gonzales, 51, has not requested his charges be dropped

www.independent.co.uk