A 14-year old suspect has been put in custody following a fatal school shooting in Winder, Georgia, USA.
In a dramatic development, the teenager’s father has been arrested with police saying he is directly connected to the actions of his son by allowing him to possess a weapon.
US correspondent Mitch McCann tells Heather du Plessis-Allan the teenager was known to police over a year ago, for online threats about a school shooting.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump wants Elon Musk to lead a Government Efficiency Commission, should he become President again.
Trump says the commission would aim to audit the US Government.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business. Mitch McCann us correspondent, hoy much,
Hey Heather, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm very well, thank you. So the fourteen year old
suspect has been put in custody and his father.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, this is a dramatic development tonight. That fourteen year
old Colin Gray was arrested yesterday for the shooting at
of Georgia High School where two teachers and two students
were killed. But today they have arrested his fifty four
year old father, Colin Gray, who plisse was directly connected
with the actions of his son and allowed him to
possess a weapon. He has been charged with four counts
(00:38):
of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children.
So his fourteen year old son, who is accused of
doing this is in custody. He's likely to be tried
as an adult. Now his father has also been charged.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So okay, So a year ago, the coppers already knew
that this kid was potentially making threats, right, and they'd
gone to investigate it in what they hadn't found any evidence?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, yes, that's right. It turns out that last year
there were allegations from people online on the social media
platform Discord that a teenager in Georgia was making claims
about shooting up a high school or something of that nature.
When they investigated, they interviewed this young man and his parents.
He denied making any allegations of that sort, and they say,
(01:21):
now there wasn't enough evidence to continue with this case.
Now you can imagine this is going to be looked
at extremely closely given what's happened. But they did look
into this young man last year and found there was
no reason to proceed.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But the allegation then, Mitch, was that there were hunting
rifles in the father's position that the kid had access to.
But what he's used, if he is the one who's
carried out the shooting at school, is not a hunting rifle,
is it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's right, But it remains to be seeing that there
were more weapons in the house as well. The police
have actually been in the house in the last couple
of days and they say that he was obsessed with
mass shooting and things of that nature. They did a
search of his room and they say he appeared to
be particularly obsessed with the twenty eighteen massacre at Marjorie
Stone and Douglas High School that Wilbert in Florida, where
(02:11):
seventeen people died. So it turns out that they've investigated
this person last year, and now they found out that
he was actually obsessed with mass shootings before he carried
out one yesterday in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So, Mitch, is it? I mean, I imagine at some
stage the heat's going to go on the cops for
having potentially had the opportunity to stop this and failing
to do so.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I would imagine that's exactly going to be the case.
I mean, there's a real, a deep look at some
of these mass shootings at the United States at the moment.
You remember the Evoldi, Texas shooting where one of the
police officers in charge there has been charged for not
doing enough on the day. Now there's going to be
a serious investigation I would imagine in the coming months
around what was missed here as they look to apply
(02:52):
it to other cases around the country. It is, you know,
biggest belief really that they got close to this kid
last year and managed to sort of let him go
and let him back to school. Now we know what's happened.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah too, Right. Hey, this Efficiency Commission that Donald Trump's
going to seat up, what is this supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, this is a Department of Government and Government Efficiency.
Donald Trump has announced that he wants to start this.
He was in New York today speaking to some business leaders. Now, essentially,
this is a government department that would cut waste. It's
sort of a ministry of regulation. He vowed to eliminate
ten existing government regulations for every new regulation added under
(03:32):
his potential new administration. And the way that Elon Musk
falls into this is that just last month, Elon Musk
posted an AI generated image on his social media account
where he was standing behind a lecturn heather that had
the words Department of Government Efficiency behind it. Donald Trump
even says that he could lead the commission, which is
(03:53):
also aiming to audit the US government. So it's, you know,
another example of Donald Trump getting closer to Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Why would Elon Musk want to spend time leading something
like this. I mean, the guy is busy enough, isn't he.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, I think that's a fair question. He owns a
number of companies. But Donald Trump has also admitted in
podcasts in recent times. It would be hard for Elon
Musk to work in a department like this given the
potential conflict of interest that would arise from the multiple
business he owns. So it remains to be seen how
this would actually work in practice. But you've also got
to remember Donald Trump wants to remain close with Elon
(04:29):
Musk because he's donating tens of millions of dollars to
his campaign at the moment, and he's also very happy
to promote Donald Trump on his campaign on his social
media accounts as well. We has tens of millions to followers,
So there's a lot of reasons why Donald Trump wants
to remain close to Musk at the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Match It's good to talk to you, mate, Thank you
so much for that update. That's which we can us
correspondent for more from hither Duplassy Allen Drive.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeart Radio out
International correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business. Mitch McCann us correspondent, hoy much,
Hey Heather, how are you.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm very well, thank you. So the fourteen year old
suspect has been put in custody and his father.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, this is a dramatic development tonight. That fourteen year
old Colin Gray was arrested yesterday for the shooting at
of Georgia High School where two teachers and two students
were killed. But today they have arrested his fifty four
year old father, Colin Gray, who plisse was directly connected
with the actions of his son and allowed him to
possess a weapon. He has been charged with four counts
(00:38):
of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children.
So his fourteen year old son, who is accused of
doing this is in custody. He's likely to be tried
as an adult. Now his father has also been charged.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
So okay, So a year ago, the coppers already knew
that this kid was potentially making threats, right, and they'd
gone to investigate it in what they hadn't found any evidence?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, yes, that's right. It turns out that last year
there were allegations from people online on the social media
platform Discord that a teenager in Georgia was making claims
about shooting up a high school or something of that nature.
When they investigated, they interviewed this young man and his parents.
He denied making any allegations of that sort, and they say,
(01:21):
now there wasn't enough evidence to continue with this case.
Now you can imagine this is going to be looked
at extremely closely given what's happened. But they did look
into this young man last year and found there was
no reason to proceed.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But the allegation then, Mitch, was that there were hunting
rifles in the father's position that the kid had access to.
But what he's used, if he is the one who's
carried out the shooting at school, is not a hunting rifle,
is it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's right, But it remains to be seeing that there
were more weapons in the house as well. The police
have actually been in the house in the last couple
of days and they say that he was obsessed with
mass shooting and things of that nature. They did a
search of his room and they say he appeared to
be particularly obsessed with the twenty eighteen massacre at Marjorie
Stone and Douglas High School that Wilbert in Florida, where
(02:11):
seventeen people died. So it turns out that they've investigated
this person last year, and now they found out that
he was actually obsessed with mass shootings before he carried
out one yesterday in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
So, Mitch, is it? I mean, I imagine at some
stage the heat's going to go on the cops for
having potentially had the opportunity to stop this and failing
to do so.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I would imagine that's exactly going to be the case.
I mean, there's a real, a deep look at some
of these mass shootings at the United States at the moment.
You remember the Evoldi, Texas shooting where one of the
police officers in charge there has been charged for not
doing enough on the day. Now there's going to be
a serious investigation I would imagine in the coming months
around what was missed here as they look to apply
(02:52):
it to other cases around the country. It is, you know,
biggest belief really that they got close to this kid
last year and managed to sort of let him go
and let him back to school. Now we know what's happened.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah too, Right. Hey, this Efficiency Commission that Donald Trump's
going to seat up, what is this supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, this is a Department of Government and Government Efficiency.
Donald Trump has announced that he wants to start this.
He was in New York today speaking to some business leaders. Now, essentially,
this is a government department that would cut waste. It's
sort of a ministry of regulation. He vowed to eliminate
ten existing government regulations for every new regulation added under
(03:32):
his potential new administration. And the way that Elon Musk
falls into this is that just last month, Elon Musk
posted an AI generated image on his social media account
where he was standing behind a lecturn heather that had
the words Department of Government Efficiency behind it. Donald Trump
even says that he could lead the commission, which is
(03:53):
also aiming to audit the US government. So it's, you know,
another example of Donald Trump getting closer to Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Why would Elon Musk want to spend time leading something
like this. I mean, the guy is busy enough, isn't he.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, I think that's a fair question. He owns a
number of companies. But Donald Trump has also admitted in
podcasts in recent times. It would be hard for Elon
Musk to work in a department like this given the
potential conflict of interest that would arise from the multiple
business he owns. So it remains to be seen how
this would actually work in practice. But you've also got
to remember Donald Trump wants to remain close with Elon
(04:29):
Musk because he's donating tens of millions of dollars to
his campaign at the moment, and he's also very happy
to promote Donald Trump on his campaign on his social
media accounts as well. We has tens of millions to followers,
So there's a lot of reasons why Donald Trump wants
to remain close to Musk at the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Match It's good to talk to you, mate, Thank you
so much for that update. That's which we can us
correspondent for more from hither Duplassy Allen Drive.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Listen live to news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeart Radio out
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