The mother of the Apalachee school shooting suspect has been indicted by a south Georgia grand jury on charges indirectly related to his case.
The AJC reports the Ben Hill County indictment accuses Marcee Gray of taping her mother, Deborah Polhamus, to a chair and leaving her there for nearly 24 hours.
Gray is charged with exploitation and intimidation of a disabled adult or elderly person, false imprisonment, criminal damage to property in the second degree, and theft.
According to the incident report, one of Polhamus’ other daughters who lives in Florida wasn’t able to get in contact with her mother, so she sent a friend to her mother’s house.
When the friend got inside the house, she found Polhamus taped at her wrists and ankles to a chair and freed her.
Polhamus told Fitzgerald police that Marcee Gray had gotten upset after she refused to go with her to Barrow County to confront her ex-husband, Colin Gray, over concerns about their son, Colt.
“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 states. “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.”