The mother of the 14-year-old accused of opening fire at his Georgia high school and killing four people gave an emotional interview to ABC News.

Marcee Gray, whose son, Colt Gray, is accused of killing two teachers and two 14-year-old students at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., spoke to the outlet and was reportedly in tears.

“If I could take their place, I would,” Marcee reportedly told the outlet. “I would in a heartbeat.”

The interview happened after The Washington Post reported that the suspected shooter’s aunt, Annie Brown, shared text messages showing that her sister had called the school minutes before the shooting and warned a counselor about an “extreme emergency.”

“I was the one that notified the school counselor at the high school,” Marcee wrote to Brown in a text obtained by the outlet. “I told them it was an extreme emergency and for them to go immediately and find [my son] to check on him.”

The Post also obtained a call log from a shared family phone plan, showing a 10-minute call from Marcee’s phone to the school.

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The four people killed in the shooting were identified as students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39 and Christina Irimie, 53.

The alleged shooter is charged with four counts of felony murder, PEOPLE previously reported. Police also arrested the suspect’s father, Colin Gray, with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

ABC reported that neither the father or son has entered a plea and are due back in court in December.

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Ukraine’s new Foreign Minister, Andrii Sybiha, said on Sept. 8 that he had recalled the Ukrainian charge d’affaires from Georgia, saying that “ambassadors of a country at war cannot be detached from the war’s realities.”

The current charge d’affaires in Georgia is Mykhailo Kharyshyn.

The announcement came amid deteriorating relations between Kyiv and Tbilisi as the Georgian Dream government seeks to normalize ties with Moscow.

“I voiced very clear criteria for the effective work of a Ukrainian ambassador. This means specific results, courage, and proactivity,” Sybiha said after a meeting with consuls and ambassadors.

“Ambassadors of a country at war cannot be detached from the realities of war. In relation to this, I decided to recall the temporary representative of Ukraine in Georgia.”

While condemning Russia’s all-out war, Georgian Dream officials have also criticized Ukraine and refused to provide military assistance to Kyiv. A particularly contentious point in bilateral ties is the imprisonment of Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who holds Ukrainian citizenship.

Tbilisi has accused people from Saakashvili’s circle and supposed ex-Ukrainian officials of planning subversive activities in Georgia, such as coups or assassination plots, without providing evidence. The Georgian government has also begun investigating Georgian volunteer fighters returning from Ukraine.

Despite prevailing anti-Russian sentiments within the country, the government has sought to stabilize relations with Moscow, restarting flights and adopting a “foreign agents” law similar to the Kremlin’s repressive legislature.  

Kharyshyn’s dismissal is part of wider personnel changes implemented by Sybiha after he took over from Dmytro Kuleba as Ukraine’s top diplomat last week.

“We need young people to come to us. We will create conditions for this,” the foreign minister said. Sybiha stressed that Ukrainian diplomats must act proactively without waiting for “instructions from the center” and must prioritize securing military assistance for the Armed Forces.

As part of further changes, Sybiha also filed a motion to dismiss Deputy Foreign Minister Iryna Borovets.

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When Bidzina Ivanishvili entered politics in 2011 and created the Georgian Dream party, he promised to give up his Russian passport and divest from business interests in the country.