*The mother of the 14-year-old accused of the mass shooting issued a statement late Wednesday, apologizing and saying her son is “not a monster.” Marcee Gray added “We are all in a living nightmare right now and I will personally never forgive myself for what has happened.”
*Meanwhile her former husband, Colin, who is charged with a number of things related to his son and the shooting, is requesting that he be kept in a cell in the Barrow County Jail segregated from other prisoners. His attorney says he has been harassed and threatened by some of them and feels his life is in danger.
*The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has released video of deputies visiting the home of shooting suspect Colt Gray. When deputies spoke with him and his father about alleged threats made on the app Dicord, the father told them he takes gun safety seriously.
*Winder hosted another candlelight vigil Wednesday night to honor the lives lost and those injured during the shooting. Parent Adrian McElhannon tells Atlanta News First the area is coming together to overcome the pain and fear left behind. The latest vigil was held one weeks after the incident.
*At least 30 students are accused of making threats in the seven days since the shooting. The state Department of Juvenile Justice confirmed with Eleven Alive this week that teens across the metro Atlanta area and elsewhere in north Georgia have been charged with terroristic threats and booked into detention centers. The sheriff in Troup County said Wednesday night that kids aren’t taking it seriously, and just think it’s a game. (See separate stories on this site about the latest such incidents in Hall and Jackson counties.)
(Georgia News Network contributed to this story.)