(SRN NEWS/AP) – Apapachee High School students Tuesday testified about the horrors of being shot during their algebra class and recounted through tears seeing a classmate in a pool of blood, then seeing blood on their own bodies and fearing they might die.
Various students took the stand at the trial of Colin Gray, the father of Colt Gray, who investigators said had carefully planned the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school that left two teachers and two students dead and several others wounded.
A ninth-grade girl said she saw a hole in her wrist and began screaming moments after the gunfire began in her Algebra I class.
“I was also worried that I was going to die and how that would affect my parents because my dad has a heart problem,” she said.
As paramedics carried her out of the school building, she saw Colt Gray on the floor with his hands behind his back and screamed obscenities at him as she passed by him.
Other students said the trauma was not limited to their physical wounds, as they spoke of being depressed, anxious and slow to trust people even now, more than a year later.
The elder Gray faces 29 charges because, prosecutors say, he provided his son with the gun that was used in the shooting.
The trial is being held in Winder before a jury of Hall County residents.
