Georgia Teen Is Sentenced to Life for Deadly School Shooting
The boy pleaded guilty to 55 charges stemming from the 2024 attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., that killed two students and two teachers. Rick Rojas reported from Atlanta, and Sean Keenan from Winder, Ga. A Georgia teenager was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for carrying out an attack at his high school that killed two students and two teachers and left a trail of grief in a suburban community near Atlanta. A judge decided that the boy, Colt Gray, now 16, should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. He had pleaded guilty last week to 55 charges, including murder and aggravated assault, in connection with the 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.
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Agonizing victim impact statements and other testimony excavated the panic and anguish in the hours after the shooting, the fitful path toward recovery for survivors and the families of those killed, and the downward spiral of an adolescent who had access to a rifle but not the psychological support he urgently needed.
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The boy pleaded guilty to 55 charges stemming from the 2024 attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., that killed two students and two teachers. Rick Rojas reported from Atlanta, and Sean Keenan from Winder, Ga. A Georgia teenager was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for carrying out an attack at his high school that killed two students and two teachers and left a trail of grief in a suburban community near Atlanta. A judge decided that the boy, Colt Gray, now 16, should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. He had pleaded guilty last week to 55 charges, including murder and aggravated assault, in connection with the 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.
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The boy pleaded guilty to 55 charges stemming from the 2024 attack at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., that killed two students and two teachers. Rick Rojas reported from Atlanta, and Sean Keenan from Winder, Ga. A Georgia teenager was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for carrying out an attack at his high school that killed two students and two teachers and left a trail of grief in a suburban community near Atlanta. A judge decided that the boy, Colt Gray, now 16, should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. He had pleaded guilty last week to 55 charges, including murder and aggravated assault, in connection with the 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga.
