BARROW COUNTY, Ga. — The accused shooter at Apalachee High School also brought a knife the day of the tragedy, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's FAQ page newly stated on Friday.
That and two other new details were published in an update to the page, which the GBI has been using as its main vehicle for providing clarifications about the Apalachee High shooting, in which four people died and another nine were injured.
According to the page, a knife was found on accused shooter Colt Gray along with an assault-style rifle when he was taken into custody the day of the shooting. There's currently no evidence that the knife was used over the course of the attack.
The page was also updated to reflect that Gray rode the bus to school the day of the shooting - Wednesday, Sept. 4. It had not been fully clear before how he arrived to school that day.
The GBI also said Gray enrolled at Apalachee High on Aug. 14 of this year, and in the roughly three weeks after he enrolled missed nine days of school.
Just one day earlier, the FAQ page on the shooting was updated to include information about how Gray brought a gun to school and why he was able to leave his class before carrying out the shooting.
According to the GBI, Colt Gray "brought the gun into the school on his own" in a backpack.
"The assault-style rifle could not be broken down, but Gray hid it in his backpack," the updated FAQ page states.
That latter element has come under particular scrutiny, as it's emerged in the days since the shooting that Gray's mother, Marcee Gray, contacted the school roughly a half hour before the shooting began to warn that her son was having an "extreme emergency."
According to AP reporting, a student previously said she saw Colt Gray briefly in the second-period algebra class, where she sat next to him, but that he left the room. The GBI now says on its FAQ page that Gray "asked a teacher if he could go to the front office to speak with him," but instead "went to the restroom and hid from teachers."
"Later, he took out the rifle, and began shooting," the GBI page states.
The Washington Post first reported the details of the morning of the shooting and Marcee Gray's attempts to reach the school. She reportedly told a school counselor her 14-year-old son needed to be found immediately and that an administrator went to the algebra class looking for the teen, but he was not in the room; the administrator reportedly left with a bag that belonged to another student with a similar name.
CNN also previously reported, citing Colt Gray's grandfather, that Marcee Gray received a text from Colt the morning of the shooting that said, "I'm sorry, mom."