COWETA, Okla. (KFOR) — An Oklahoma teen who happens to share the same name and age as the person suspected of shooting and killing four people in a Georgia high school Wednesday says he was shocked to see a viral social media post containing his picture, claiming he was the shooter. The Oklahoma teen’s mom says social media companies need to be held responsible for allowing misinformation like this to spread. Teen suspect in Ga. school shooting and his father to remain held after hearings “I mean, all my life I've always wanted to be, like, famous,” said Colt Gray, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Coweta, Okla. But the attention Gray got this week is not what he had in mind. “But, I mean, you could say that I'm going viral or famous, but in a bad way,” Gray told News 4. And what a week it’s been for Gray. “I wish I could just forget all about this, but I can't do that,” he said. Gray, whose pictures News 4 has blurred in this article for his protection, lives in the Tulsa suburb of Coweta, Oklahoma. He’s a good kid. And really into baseball. “I play for my school and I play for a competitive team,” Gray said. In fact, he wants to play in college someday. It’s why he created a profile on a baseball recruiting website, complete with his picture and stats. It was a decision he and his family thought nothing of, until Wednesday. That’s when authorities in Georgia announced another 14-year-old, who also happens to be named Colt Gray, allegedly shot and killed four people in a high school near Atlanta. Later that day, a verified account on X, formerly known as Twitter, made a post claiming to have found a picture of the Colt Gray accused in the shooting. There was just one problem: the picture shared by the X account was not of the suspected shooter, but instead of the innocent Colt Gray from Oklahoma. “One of my friends texted me and sent me the photo and I'm just like, what the heck,” Gray said. “Like, what? What? What is this?” His mom, Jessie Gray couldn’t believe it either. “I was scared and in shock,” Jessie Gray said. “I was like, is this like a dream?” Colin Gray, father of Georgia school shooting suspect, arrested on multiple counts After all, Colt was more than 800 miles away from Georgia when the shooting happened. “I live in Oklahoma, and that day I was at school,” Colt Gray said. “Like, there's no possible way I could have gotten there.” “I mean, who could be so careless to post it,” Jessie Gray said. “It's not like the picture didn't obviously say something underneath it. And then the website that the picture came off also gave stats and it was very clear where he was from. So it was just very shocking that it could be used and misinterpreted and put out there.” Numerous users on X pointed that fact out in the post’s comments. But the account refused to delete it, and instead doubled down, posting: “This may be the wrong photo, but this is what others are saying at this point.Nothing can be fully verified until the police report it.The name has been verified.” The original post containing the incorrect picture gained more than 200 thousand views before X added a "community note" to it, indicating the post contained false information. Still, the post remained up for several more hours, until it was finally deleted. By that time, other accounts on X and even Facebook had saved the picture and made their own posts also incorrectly identifying the Colt Gray from Coweta as the shooter. Those posts still come up in the google search results for “Colt Gray.” “Just seeing my picture out there is just it's just kind of crazy because people think like, oh, this was the shooter,” Colt Gray told News 4. His mom says the past few days have been hectic at times, and downright scary during others. “It’s been a whirlwind of emotions,” Jessie Gray said. “I had people texting me and calling me and stuff—numbers I'd never heard or seen. So I was just immediately blocking those. And then once I got those, I was locking down my social media, my Facebook and stuff to maybe try to figure out where it was coming from." Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation She turned her attention to X and Facebook, where she reported all the posts she could find with her son’s picture on them. “In the last day or two it's just been the stress and thinking how in the world am I going to get all these pictures down,” she said. “I don't want these to pop up later down the road. So just stress and overwhelming and just feeling helpless, too. And then just overall mad and, you know, my child has done nothing. Just every emotion basically.” The fact that, of all things, someone would accuse her son of committing a school shooting, hurts even more. “I mean, it's something just so awful,” she said. “It's to me, the worst crime possible in the most awful setting.” The inaccurate post about Gray is all part of a troubling trend experts say has been plaguing social media platforms lately. “These days it feels like almost half the things I read on social media are fake or misleading,” said Patrick Allmond, a social media strategist from Oklahoma City. “Or kind of gray news versus hard, black and white news. He says, it’s quite possible there may not have even been a real person behind the account that made the post incorrectly identifying Gray as the shooter. “100% a bot account is capable of finding a name in a news headline, scouring the internet, looking for images and other news related to that name and then re-sharing it automatically,” Allmond said. As social media guardrails fade and AI deepfakes go mainstream, experts warn of impact on elections Allmond said the problem with misinformation being spread on X grew rapidly when the social media platform changed its criteria, that an account needed to meet, to become verified and receive a blue check mark. “I believe on X and other social media platforms these days, it's just verifying your ID along with paying a particular fee,” Allmond said. “It used to be like a badge of honor that you didn't have to pay for. Twitter was saying you were a legitimate person. But these days, a PayPal account and a driver's license gets you a blue checkmark.” Increasingly, he said people with certain agendas have chosen to use X to spread misinformation. “I think because people learned it was such a good way to spread information and specifically misinformation in the past couple of years, you know, probably the political community has taken it over,” he said. “A lot of people have found it very easy to re-share information, even if it's completely false or partially true." TikTok to start labeling AI-generated content that may otherwise ‘confuse or mislead viewers,’ company says Regardless of whether a bot or a real person made the post about Gray, his mom says responsibility also has to lie with the social media platforms themselves. “They do bear that responsibility, especially once we've taken our time and due diligence to report these things and they're not being taken down,” Jessie Gray said. She said she and Colt’s father have considered taking legal action in response to everything, but have not made a final decision. As for Colt— “I'm like, what the heck,” he said. He’s trying to keep his head up. “The emotions are mixed,” he said. “I mean, I've been happy because all my friends are backing me and my parents are backing me.” And he has his own message that he would like to share with whoever is behind the post. “You kind of ruined my reputation,” he said. “I mean, like, why? Why would you do something to ruin someone's reputation who didn't even do anything? I mean, I get it. I share the same name with him. But if you look at my profile on anything, I'm from Coweta, Oklahoma. Not Georgia.”