Father of 14-Year-Old Georgia School Shooting Suspect Pleads Not Guilty
COURTS AND CRIME
Colin Gray, father of a 14-year-old accused of going on a shooting rampage at Apalachee High School, allegedly purchased his son a weapon
The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of killing four people in a mass school shooting pleaded not guilty to charges related to allegedly purchasing his son a weapon.
Colin Gray entered a not-guilty plea on Thursday. He faces 29 counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children, for his alleged role in the deadly Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, shooting on Sept. 4.
Gray, 54, is accused of knowingly giving his troubled teenage son Colt Gray an AR-style rifle, which the 14-year-old allegedly used in the school shooting, killing two students and two adults and injuring nine more people.
Colt, who will be tried as an adult, pleaded not guilty to 55 counts of felony murder, malice murder, and aggravated assault.
Gray’s arrest marks the first time in Georgia’s state history where a parent of an alleged school shooter was charged for their child’s alleged actions, Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said. The first parents ever charged in connection to a school shooting were Ethan Crumbley’s mother and father after the teen was accused of shooting and killing four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.
