Teen Colt Gray sentenced to life without parole for deadly mass shooting at his Georgia high school
Two teachers and two students were killed in the Apalachee High School shooting. A teenage boy who carried out a mass shooting at his Georgia high school, killing two students and two teachers, was sentenced to life without parole, with the judge calling his actions "deliberate, contemplated evil." Colt Gray, 16, faced a sentence of life with or without parole after pleading guilty to all 55 counts against him, including murder and aggravated assault. Judge Nicholas Primm handed down the sentence on Tuesday in Barrow County after taking over an hour to deliberate following closing arguments, during which prosecutors said the teen idolized other mass shooters and wanted infamy. "You wrote, 'I want to make history. I want people to remember the pain I caused,' and there you succeeded," Primm said. "The pain that you visited upon this community is unlikely to disappear in my lifetime." The judge continued, "You do not seem to be tormented by what you did. He pleaded guilty last Friday without negotiating a plea deal.
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The sentence was handed down following three days of testimony, including multiple victim impact statements during which several family members of those killed in the shooting asked for the maximum possible sentence. He said Tuesday's sentence does not bring joy, but closure. "The slain will not return to life, the injured will not forget their wounds, and a 16-year-old -- a 16-year-old boy -- will live and die in prison," Primm said.
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Two teachers and two students were killed in the Apalachee High School shooting. A teenage boy who carried out a mass shooting at his Georgia high school, killing two students and two teachers, was sentenced to life without parole, with the judge calling his actions "deliberate, contemplated evil." Colt Gray, 16, faced a sentence of life with or without parole after pleading guilty to all 55 counts against him, including murder and aggravated assault. Judge Nicholas Primm handed down the sentence on Tuesday in Barrow County after taking over an hour to deliberate following closing arguments, during which prosecutors said the teen idolized other mass shooters and wanted infamy. "You wrote, 'I want to make history. I want people to remember the pain I caused,' and there you succeeded," Primm said. "The pain that you visited upon this community is unlikely to disappear in my lifetime." The judge continued, "You do not seem to be tormented by what you did. He pleaded guilty last Friday without negotiating a plea deal.
