Dad to be sentenced for murder in school shooting carried out by teenage son
Colin Gray's son, Colt Gray, pleaded guilty to all charges in the 2024 shooting. The father of a Georgia teenager who carried out a deadly mass shooting at his high school is set to be sentenced on more than two dozen charges, including second-degree murder, after a jury found him criminally culpable for the attack. Colin Gray, 56, admitted to providing the assault rifle used by his then-14-year-old son in the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School, which killed two students and two teachers . His son, 16-year-old Colt Gray, pleaded guilty to all 55 counts against him, including murder and aggravated assault.
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Following the verdict, Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said that evidence showed that there were "multiple warnings over a lengthy period of time." "You just had to do one thing -- take that rifle away -- and this would have been prevented," Smith told reporters.
