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Prosecutors asked the judge that Colin Gray be sentenced to 80 years in prison, saying that he gave Colt Gray a gun months after law enforcement asked him to restrict his son's access to guns, and that the risk was "staring him in the face every day" in the form of a shrine to the shooter in the Parkland high school massacre in his son's bedroom. "This was the risk he was ignoring, that there would be a mass shooting of children at a school, and he gave his son the exact tool he would need to accomplish this," Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said during the sentencing hearing Thursday. "He is the reason four people are dead, seven are injured and countless others traumatized. Judge Primm noted the novelty of the school shooting case, saying it's the first of its kind in Georgia and the second he's aware of in the nation. "What we're really referencing is this new phenomenon of parents being charged in conjunction with crimes that their children are committing," Primm said. "It's a divisive case." Primm said the father was convicted because "the warning lights were flashing brighter and brighter" and he didn't get his son help or remove his access to guns. "No parent thinks that their child is going to be the next school shooter, but it became more and more obvious that something bad was going to happen," Primm said.