Mother of alleged Georgia school shooting victim Colt Gray once threatened to kill her husband

The mother of alleged Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray once described herself as a victim of abuse and boasted online that her “kids were fine.” This came around the same time that authorities visited her son to investigate an alleged threat he made to target his school.

Marcee Gray’s social media is filled with posts in which she details her ex-husband’s abusive upbringing and their own seemingly tumultuous relationship in the months before she announced she had left him.

“I packed up myself and my babies and moved to my hometown in south Georgia. We are all doing well and my kids are thriving,” Marcee, who has her own rap magazine dating back nearly two decades, wrote on LinkedIn in May 2023.

The announcement of her departure from the family home came after Marcee, 43, wrote about her husband Colin’s childhood as one of “severe physical abuse.”

“From my husband’s earliest memory all he knew was abuse. … I’m talking everything from getting his arm broken at 8 while he was completely asleep to having his skull cracked open by a bar stool,” she wrote on Facebook in November 2022.

“I still run my fingers over the scar/groove on his scalp and think to myself ‘How?! I can’t even believe it!’… that’s what substance abuse can do. To a mother, a father, a husband, a sibling… you name it and it will get to them.”

“I know it’s hard to understand from the outside. Everyone in my family and his couldn’t understand why I stayed so long,” she wrote in a separate post, adding: “Ultimately it was my own decision.”

In another social media letter, Marcee wrote: “No one but me understands the pain my husband lives with every day. Everyone in his life has hurt or betrayed him.”

“And I truly believe that the Lord sent me to him because no one else was strong enough to see him through thick and thin. I’m not going to give up on him now… We’re just taking a break,” she continued.

A month later, the couple, who had three children, called it quits.

“Finally divorced from my abusive husband of almost 14 years… Hardest sh-t I’ve ever done but we’re in good hands,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

Her emotional posts seemed to mask Marcee Gray’s own chaotic life.

Her arrest record includes charges of drug possession, aggravated assault, theft and trespassing, and she also once “threatened to kill her husband” during an incident, sources told The Daily Mail.

Gray also “tied up” her elderly mother and left her alone for 24 hours, the outlet reported, without providing further details.

Marcee Gray was last in Barrow County Jail in April, where she was arrested on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine, fentanyl and muscle relaxants.

She was also charged with aggravated assault, robbery, trespassing, unlawful imprisonment and failure to appear in January in nearby Fitzgerald County.

An arrest warrant obtained by the Daily Mail shows Gray had a glass jar of methamphetamine, a “baggie” of fentanyl, another “baggie” of multiple muscle relaxants and a glass pipe “used for taking narcotics.”

Gray was sentenced to five years in prison, spending the first 46 days behind bars and the remainder on probation, the outlet reported.

Gray could not be reached by The Post on Saturday, either by phone or at her address in the small town of Fitzgerald, about a three-hour drive south of Atlanta.

There was a Nissan Rogue in the driveway, but no one answered the door. An arrest warrant issued for Marcee last year alleged that she concealed the identity of her Nissan Rogue vehicle by putting a Nissan Kick tag on it.

While Marcee was bragging about her new beginning, Colt was visited by the local police after allegedly threatening to shoot up his high school on Discord.

Colin Gray told police that he had recently separated from his son’s mother, and that “she had taken his two youngest” children with her. Colt apparently stayed with him.

Colt, 14, faces four counts of murder in connection with Wednesday’s shooting, while his father, who is accused of giving his son the AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre, has been charged with four counts of second-degree involuntary murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

Colin Gray told a sheriff’s detective that his son was not the type to threaten violence.

“He’s not a loner, officer. I don’t get it,” the father told police, adding, “He just wants to go to school, do his own thing and he doesn’t want any trouble.”

He also said he knew nothing about the threats Colt made. He said, “I’d be pissed if he did that, and then all the guns would be gone.”

Additional reporting by Stephen Vago.