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While authorities proceed to analyze the circumstances surrounding Wednesday’s tragic faculty capturing in Winder, Georgiathe suspect’s aunt — who has been extremely crucial of her sibling’s parenting abilities — is doing her greatest to course of the ghastly accusations towards her 14-year-old nephew.

“Our hearts and humble prayers are with the families affected by this devastating tragedy,” Annie Polhamus Brown informed The Independent.

Polhamus Brown, who lives in Florida together with her golf professional husband, mentioned Thursday that she and the remainder of the household are “eager” to share their ideas about what might need prompted incoming freshman Colt Gray to allegedly gun down two classmates and two lecturers at Apalachee High School, however that “it will not be at this time.”

Although she posted on social media Thursday morning to say she had carried out “EVERYTHING I COULD TO FIGHT FOR MY NEPHEW!!!!!!,” Polhamus Brown, 37, has slammed older sister Marcee Polhamus Gray and Marcee’s estranged husband, Colin Gray, in Facebook feedback and posts courting again nearly two years. In one November 2022 remark, beneath a put up by Marcee about Colin supposedly having been abused as a toddler, she known as out her brother-in-law for not seeing a therapist to take care of his issues.

Polhamus Brown additionally lambasted Marcee, 43, for her persevering with reliance on their mother and father, who she mentioned bailed her out of jail and took her in following a stint in rehab. Polhamus Brown declined on Thursday to debate the posts in additional element, promising that she would “definitely” share her ideas “at the right time.”

Marcee was first arrested in March 2007 on 5 vehicle-related misdmeanors, together with reckless driving, improper proper flip, and DUI. She pleaded responsible in June 2008, paying a $600 advantageous and receiving 12 months probation, plus 40 hours of group service, based on a overview of Fulton County, Georgia court docket data. She “successfully completed all conditions of probation” in August 2010, the docket reveals.

In November 2023, Marcee was arrested on a pair of felony drug possession fees after allegedly getting caught in her automotive with “a glass jar with a crystal-like substance known to be methamphetamine,” and a “red clear baggie with a powder substance known as fentanyl,” based on an arrest warrant filed in Barrow County Superior Court. She was additionally hit with misdemeaors for having “a clear glass pipe used for the ingestion of narcotics,” a baggie containing “multiple” tablets of cyclobenzaprine, a prescription ache tablet, and for affixing another person’s license plate to her Nissan Rogue, data present.

Marcee in the end pleaded responsible to a few misdemeanors: second-degree prison injury to property, prison trespass, and use of a license plate to hide id. Although she confronted a most sentence of seven years in jail, Marcee was sentenced to a month-and-a-half in jail, which was all however canceled out with credit score for time served, plus roughly 5 years of felony probation, based on plea paperwork within the case. The decide forbade her from utilizing medicine or alcohol, and she or he was barred from having contact together with her husband.

Marcee additionally confronted civil fees introduced in 2019 by a Chevy seller who accused her and her husband of passing a foul verify as a down fee, based on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (The closing disposition of the case is unclear.)

Reached by cellphone on Thursday, the sisters’ 74-year-old mom, Colt Gray’s grandmother, declined to remark. Marcee and Colin Gray have been unable to be reached.

Colt Gray, who was probed final yr by the FBI however not charged with a criminal offense after allegedly making mass-capturing threats, is now dealing with 4 counts of felony homicide. He is being tried as an grownup for the deaths of 14-year-old college students Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, and lecturers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53. At least 9 others have been hospitalized with a variety of accidents.

By Thursday morning, greater than $100,000 had been raised for the victims’ households.