Georgia School Shooter & Grocery Store Attempted Kidnapping

What kind of impact does a thoughtful teacher have on a student’s life? We start this episode with a heartwarming tribute to Mr. Rapp, a beloved science teacher whose dedication and respect for his students made a lasting impact. This nostalgic trip down memory lane sets the stage for a much heavier conversation about Colt Gray, a 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect. Unpacking Colt’s distressing background, we examine the roles and responsibilities of his parents, social workers, and local law enforcement, alongside broader societal factors contributing to his tragic actions. It's a sobering reminder that we need to look beyond the surface to understand the root causes behind such heartbreaking events.

Switching gears, we recount a harrowing ordeal at a Florida Walmart where a brave bystander averted a potential kidnapping. A woman, simply going about her day, found herself face-to-face with a knife-wielding sex offender. The terrifying details of this near-tragedy underscore the critical importance of staying vigilant, even in familiar settings. From the chilling threat to the heroic rescue, this incident not only highlights the unpredictable nature of danger but also showcases the power of community intervention. Join us as we explore these two gripping stories that reveal both the darkest and most courageous aspects of human nature.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Discussion on School Shooting Suspect's Background
• 7:50 Florida Walmart Kidnapping Attempt Sparking Outrage

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:22

Hello and good morning. We're going to start off with the question of the day who was your favorite teacher? It can be elementary school, junior high, high school. I think the teacher that stands out to me is his name was Mr Rapp R-A-P-P, and he was a science teacher and he made it fun, and I think that's my favorite favorite teacher. I don't know, he just made it fun. He made it interactive. He didn't talk down to you, he talked to you like a regular person. It just made it fun to learn, and I think that's the whole point of being a teacher, correct, maybe? I don't know. That's the question of the day, though we are going to go.

Speaker 1: 1:02

We have five topics to go over. Feel free to share your teacher experience, whatever teacher you, whatever you want to share about a teacher that you remember in school. All right, we have five topics. I don't know that I can get into him in depth or not. I may just read headlines here or there. But here we go.

Speaker 1: 1:24

The georgia school shooting suspects, broken home life, a mom with multiple drug arrests and a dad who gave him an AR-15 for Christmas. Okay, I have several thoughts about this and you may not agree with me. So here we go. Colt Gray, the baby-faced Georgia school shooting suspect who was charged with murdering two classmates and two teachers, grew up in a broken and neglectful home, which police and child services visited on a regular basis. A former neighbor and landlord told the Post Okay, you may or may not hear about this from the news, you may not hear about any of it from the mainstream news, that ABC, nbc, cbs, fox, cnn you may not hear any of this from them, but this is from the Post. And, look, they arrested his dad, which. Look, they arrested his dad, which, if we're going to arrest the dad, then you need to arrest the social workers, and then you need to arrest the FBI agents as well A lot of people who grew up in that type of environment. And they don't turn out to kill people. They don't show up to school with a rifle and shoot people. So you've got that angle as well.

Speaker 1: 3:04

And I'm not giving a 14-year-old child an AR-15 for Christmas. Now, if I want to buy it for myself, fine, I think I should have absolutely the right and freedom to do so, but I am not giving it to a 14 year old. Hello, now, maybe there are some parents who do, I don't know. Look, I'm not familiar with an AR-14, ar-15, whatever. I'm not familiar with it. Do I don't know? Look, I'm not familiar with an AR, ar 14, 15, whatever. I'm not familiar with it. Okay, I don't know what it's used for. I don't do you hunt with it, is it? I don't know. So, maybe people who live on a farm who do go hunting, I don't know, but I'm not buying. I would maybe like to have one, just to have one. I would need to get familiar with it, obviously, uh, but I'm not buying. I would maybe like to have one, just to have one. I would need to get familiar with it, obviously, uh, but I'm not buying it for a 14 year old. I know. I've already said that a gazillion times.

Speaker 1: 3:56

There are families who do probably do that, though, but they are probably a lot more responsible. Okay, this, this family here sounds like I hate to say this, but we are seeing more Well, there's a lot of families like this. Okay, there really is. There are a lot of families like this, and it's sad. The mother apparently was an alcoholic drug addict, strung out. They found you know, the neighbors would find her in the car passed out early morning after she'd taken the kids and dropped them off. She'd be passed out in the car, in the driveway. She would lock them out of the house, lock the kids out of the house. They'd be at the back door, banging on the door, screaming, hollering to get let back in, screaming at mom, mom, they would go. The kids would go over to the neighbor's house asking for food. The neighbor said they were always in tattered, dirty clothes, whatever.

Speaker 1: 4:54

Now again, people, this, this is not a family. This is not, uh, an I'm. What am I trying to say? This is not an ordinary, this is not a normal abnormal. This happens a lot in America and we just kind of gloss over it and don't pay attention to it.

Speaker 1: 5:16

A lot of people are just going to look at this Colton Gray guy, or Gray, whatever his name is, and just call him evil, because that's the best excuse that they have. That's the only thing that they have that they can point to. That helps them accept what happened. They're just going to say, well, he's evil, without looking into anything. There's a lot to it. There's a lot to it Again. I'm going to say it again to it. There's a lot to it Again. I'm going to say it again. A lot of kids are at this point right now in America, but they're not going to pick up an AR-15 rifle and go to school and shoot at people. They're just not going to do it. All right. So there's something else going on. I'm not sure let's go on and continue with the story. Uh, there's just a lot to this story. I'm not trying to sympathize with him, okay, I'm not just. Oh, just, it's heartbreaking, it's heartbreaking.

Speaker 1: 6:11

Lauren vickers, who lived next door to the grays in jefferson, georgia, said there were problems immediately when the grays and their three children moved into the well manicured neighborhood 60 miles east of Atlanta. Apparently the dad, apparently the mother, after she you know her drug and alcohol. Apparently she left. I don't know if they split up she left. I don't know the details of that, but I think the dad was raising him by himself perhaps, and from what the neighbors say, he was not a kind man either. He was always yelling and screaming at that at the kids. There were nights where the mom would look, would lock him and his sister out of the house and they would be banging on the back door just screaming like mom, mom, mom and crying. It was absolutely devastating, she said. Vickers said that sometimes the youngest child would come to her backyard asking for food. No, clean clothes, I'm not exaggerating, it was a constant abuse. She said it's very, very sad.

Speaker 1: 7:10

Gray's maternal grandfather told cnn thursday night that he was just a good kid who lived in an environment that was hostile. Okay, so why didn't you do anything? Let's look at JD Vance, for example. Same upbringing. It looks like probably JD Vance didn't go do this. So I mean, you know what I'm saying. What is happening here? What is happening? I'm not going to finish reading that, but I want you to go over and finish reading it. It's rather telling, but we need to move on to the next topic.

Speaker 1: 7:50

So Florida Walmart shopper nearly kidnapped, stuffed into a car trunk by knife, yielding sex offender while packing groceries I'll slice your throat. This story just absolutely infuriates me to no end. A Florida woman was nearly thrown into the trunk of her car with her would-be when her could oh my gosh, I can't talk when, oh my gosh drunk of her car, with her would-be kidnapper holding a knife to her and threatening to slice her throat if she didn't comply. Veronica Jones had just finished shopping at an Orlando Walmart on Monday. I used to live in Orlando as a teenager on Monday at around 4 30 pm 4 30 pm, not 10 30 at night, not three o'clock in the morning, night, not three o'clock in the morning, 4 30 pm and was putting her groceries into her trunk when the horrifying ordeal went down.

Speaker 1: 8:49

All of a sudden, somebody grabbed me full body, jones told the outlet revealing. At first she thought it was someone she may know trying to pull a prank on her. I get that. I would probably think the same thing too, because you know who's going to do that in broad daylight. Oh my God, I would be so fucking pissed off. I have a lot of anger probably pent up in me. I don't know, though.

Speaker 1: 9:15

This guy looked pretty big. I don't know if I could fight him off. I think I would like to think I could, but damn, let's see. So he kept pushing me. I was pinned against my car. He kept pushing me toward my trunk as he was pulling my purse at the same time. First of all, he's getting my purse, you can have it, take it at the same time. First of all, he's getting my purse, you can have it, take it. Take it, mf-er, and then on your way out I'm going to. Oh my gosh, I'm so. This story just freaking infuriates me to no end.

Speaker 1: 9:44

The suspect, later identified by police as 54-year-old Juan Perez, demanded that she cough up her purse in cash. Jones said she was fighting to keep her purse because it contained all of her important valuables. Okay, I get that. Okay, I get it. However, she quickly realized the perp was willing to get violent when he put a knife to her throat and threatened her life. Then he put something to my neck which he says if you don't stop, stop this, I'm going to slice your throat, if you don't give me your purse, jones shared.

Speaker 1: 10:17

Perez continued to push her to into the truck with the blade still pressed against her throat, causing joe's to get into survival mode. Jones said she started screaming for help, but her cries were swiftly muffled out when the would-be kidnapper shoved a glove down her throat. She told the outlet oh my God, this man, I could strangle him with my bare hands and kill the mother effer. You know what I'm saying. Oh my gosh, I'm just pissed off. Fortunately, she got one shout for help, which alerted a nearby bystander who rushed over and scared the violent suspect off. Which alerted a nearby bystander who rushed over and scared the violent suspect off. She heard me say help, so she got out of the car and then at this time we were tugging on the purse and she got it because the strap broke. Okay, blah, blah, blah. All these little details, whatever.

Speaker 1: 11:08

The brave bystander later told law enforcement she saw the victim's legs flailing out of the trunk and the suspect trying to push her in y'all this is at 4 30 pm at the grocery store. When the suspect took off with her purse, the walmart shopper lost her wallet. Okay, whatever, we know all that. So, anyway, the guy takes off, but guess what? He comes back the next day. That's how the police apprehend him. He comes back to the next day, same same grocery store, same parking lot. Oh my gosh. So Perez's car was also spotted in the park. Let's see, go back up one more.

Speaker 1: 11:49

Police arrested Perez the following day after a GPS he was wearing from a past crime put him at this. So he was wearing an ankle bracelet I mean an ankle monitor, because he'd already. He was already a criminal out on the streets. That's how the police nabbed him. Police arrested Perez the following day after a GPS he was wearing from a past past crime put him at the scene of the attempted kidnapping and armed robbery. Perez's car was also spotted at the scene of the attempted kidnapping and armed robbery. Perez's car was also spotted in the parking lot during that time and his probation officer verified him as the perp from steals off of Walmart security. Blah, blah, blah blah. He was taken into custody.

Speaker 1: 12:26

Okay, it doesn't say if he was here illegally, but I don't think he was, but I don't think he was. Maybe he wasn't because he is also a registered sex offender in Florida for lewd or lascivious battery of a victim 12 to 15 years old, from 2004. So he may not be one of these people that crossed the border recently, so, but he looks like he might be a resident. Still, I don't care if the resident non-resident mmm, I'm just.

Speaker 1: 13:06

This infuriates me, broad effing daylight while she's doing her grocery shopping. Women, be aware of your freaking surroundings. I'll tell you what. When I come in a period to work, when I park to do this podcast, I'm always leery. Now I'm parked, we have a security guard indoors, so you know they have cameras in there. So I'm, I feel somewhat, and then, of course, my coworker pulls up next to me pretty much right after I get here. So still be. This was broad daylight 4 30 in the afternoon. This. This just pisses me off, I swear. Okay, we got to move on. I'm sorry I got worked up over that one. It just makes me so mad. I don't even know if I can get into these other ones.

Speaker 1: 13:50

We're going to read it. We're just going to read a couple of headlines. All right, with Tim Walls subpoena. Congress demands the answers on COVID fraud that the media won't ask. So I guess Tim Walz is being subpoenaed for his mismanagement of COVID funds or in his state I don't know if he did it, but these groups in his state. So they're going to subpoena him and ask him some questions. Oh, big whoop, nothing's going to become of that. Nothing. They never do anything about any of this stuff. How many times have we watched on the news? Congress people come on the news. Yeah, we interviewed him. Yeah, they're going to subpoena him. Yeah, they brought before us in the hearing and we asked them questions.

Speaker 1: 14:32

Okay, but what happened? Nothing, all right, so there's still some. Long Island has lost it. Okay, there's another crime. Podcast Identity of body found stuffed inside a Long Island suitcase revealed, but mystery remains.

Speaker 1: 14:50

What is you know? I've brought you several stories recently about Long Island and the murderous people that live there. Police have identified human remains found stuffed in a suitcase and discarded on Long Island on Tuesday as a 31-year-old woman. The decaying remains of Sikia Jones were discovered in the luggage next to an apartment complex in Huntington Station after locals complained of a foul odor. The Suffolk County Police Department confirmed in a press release on Thursday her cause of death will be determined by an autopsy. So, but we don't know what happened or anything yet. Well, hopefully we'll stay on that story and the last one here. Oh yeah, I'm not going to get into this because it's not really important.

Speaker 1: 15:40

Has New York city lost its fashion luster, with future of New York fashion week under threat? Here's what to look forward to this week. I guess fashion week is happening, uh, but you know I think everything's going downhill. We can't have anything nice anymore. I mean, you know, if I understand New going downhill, we can't have anything nice anymore. I mean, you know, I understand New York fashion probably is not your thing, I get it, but you know it was like an icon for you know, come on, for a lot of people, iconic event for a lot of people, and you know I like fashion. Now I don't wear any of their stuff, but I like to look at it and talk about it and whatever. You know stuff, but I like to look at it and talk about it and whatever. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1: 16:21

All right, I know I got worked up. I got worked up over this one. I sound like a crazy person sitting in her car, like though you like. You see those liberal women who rant inside their car. I feel like that's what I just did. Oh, but come on, you know, it's stuff. You got to get worked up, right. But that grocery store, that woman they almost got kidnapped in broad daylight at 4.30 pm doing some grocery shopping. Man, that just infuriates, that just makes me so angry, not at her, not her, but what is happening to America? I mean, just a couple of years ago would you have even thought something like that would have happened? No, I don't know what is going on. I don't know what's happening anymore. Tell me what you think is happening in this world. All right, I gotta go. Thanks for listening. Thanks for putting up with me and my crazy stuff. I'll try to be better. I'll try to calm down Next time. Alright, I'll be back again tomorrow. Thanks for listening.