The Father of Colt Gray, a teenager who killed four people and injured 9 in a school shooting event, has been found guilty of his involvement in the crime.
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Colin Gray pleaded not guilty to the charges he faced for a school shooting perpetrated by his son, Colt Gray, in Georgia in 2024.
Two students named Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and two teachers, Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall, were killed in the attack. The shooting took place on September 4 at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.
Nine others were injured in the event. 14-year-old Colt, at the time, was arrested on suspicion of conducting the shooting and taken into custody. He is currently awaiting trial and faces 55 felony counts, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors then brought charges against Colin Gray for buying his teenage son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present, for giving him access to the weapon as well as ammunition.
This was despite getting warned that his son was a danger to others. The father was arrested later on and was up against 27 charges, which included two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter, 18 counts of cruelty to children, and five counts of reckless conduct.
The verdict for him was guilty, and he now faces 10 to 30 years in prison on each murder charge, as well as a potential 10 years for each charge of manslaughter.
The teenager was previously interviewed in May 2023 by the FBI, after anonymous reports were made that Gray had been making ‘online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time’.
Both of them were interviewed at the same time, and the teenager denied making the threats; the matter was not pursued further. The FBI said in a statement: “The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them […] At the time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels.”
Barrow County Assistant District Attorney Patricia Brooks said to the jurors during the trial, “After seeing sign after sign of his son’s deteriorating mental state, his violence, his school-shooter obsession, the defendant had sufficient warning that his son was a bomb just waiting to go off.”
Brooks also added, “That man and his son are both responsible for the immense suffering that occurred on September 4. The blood is on their hands.”
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