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A father and son are both charged in connection with a mass school shooting in Georgia

VaselineOctober 17, 2024

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A father and son are both charged in connection with a mass school shooting in Georgia

Jeff Amy
| Associated press

Atlanta – A grand jury in Georgia has indicted both a father and son in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.

Among other things, WAGA-TV reported that the Barrow County grand jury meeting in Winder on Thursday indicted 14-year-old Colt Gray on a total of 55 charges, including four counts of malice murder, four counts of murder and aggravated assault. and cruelty to children. His father, Colin Gray, faces 29 charges, including manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

Both will be arraigned on November 21, after which they will formally enter a plea. Colin Gray is being held in the Barrow County Jail. Colt Gray is charged as an adult but is being held in a juvenile detention center in Gainesville. Neither has sought bail and their lawyers previously declined comment.

Investigators testified that Gray carried a semiautomatic assault rifle on the school bus that morning, with the barrel sticking out of his book bag, wrapped in poster board. They say the boy left the second-period classroom and emerged from a bathroom with the gun before shooting people in a classroom and hallways.

The shooting killed teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Another teacher and eight more students were injured, seven of whom were hit by gunfire.

Investigators have said the freshman carefully planned the shooting at the 1,900-student high school northeast of Atlanta. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified that he left a notebook in his classroom with step-by-step handwritten instructions on how to prepare for the shooting. It included a diagram of his second-grade classroom and his estimate that he could kill as many as 26 people and injure as many as 13 others, writing that he would be “surprised if I made it this far.”

There had long been signs that Colt Gray was in trouble.

Colt and Colin Gray were interviewed in May 2023 about an online threat related to Colt Gray. Colt Gray denied making the threat at the time. He enrolled at Apalachee after the academic year started and then skipped several days of school. Investigators said he had a “severe anxiety attack” on August 14. A counselor said he had suicidal thoughts and was rocking and shaking uncontrollably while in her office.

Colt’s mother Marcee Gray, who lived separately, told investigators she had an argument with Colin Gray and asked him to secure his weapons and restrict Colt’s access in August. Instead, he bought the boy ammunition, a scope and other shooting accessories, records show.

After Colt Gray asked his mother to place him in a “mental asylum,” the family arranged for him to be taken to a mental health treatment center in Athens on August 31, where inpatient treatment was offered, but the plan fell apart when his parents argued about Colt’s problems. access to guns the day before and his father said he didn’t have the gas money, an investigator said.

Colin Gray has been arrested and charged with manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children, but has not yet been charged. He is in custody in Barrow County and has not applied for bail. His lawyers also declined to comment.

Colin Gray’s arrest was the latest example of prosecutors holding parents responsible for their children’s actions in school shootings. Michigan parents Jennifer and James Crumbley, the first to be convicted in a US mass school shooting, were sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for failing to secure a firearm at home and behaving indifferently to signs of the deteriorating mental health of their son before killing four. students in 2021.

“In this case, Your Honor, he had primary custody of Colt. He was aware of Colt’s obsessions with school shooters. He was aware of Colt’s deteriorating mental condition. And he provided the firearms and ammunition that Colt used,” prosecutor Brad Smith told the judge during a preliminary hearing for Colin Gray.

VaselineOctober 17, 2024

1 3 minutes read

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