Father charged after teen son accused of fatally shooting 4 in Georgia HS — and jury returns verdict



A father was charged with murder after his teen son was accused of fatally shooting four in a Georgia high school in 2024 — and on Tuesday a jury returned a verdict in the case against the dad.

The jury found Colin Gray guilty of all charges in the deadly shooting his son is accused of carrying out at Apalachee High School in Winder, which is northeast of Atlanta, the Associated Press reported.

Colt Gray — who was 14 at the time of the shooting — pleaded not guilty to 55 counts, including murder, the AP said.

The outlet said Gray "now joins a growing number" of parents being held responsible after their children have been accused in shootings.

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Colin Gray was found guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo. Georgia law defines second-degree murder as causing the death of a child by committing the crime of cruelty to children. Gray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the killings of teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.

Another teacher and eight other students were wounded. Gray was also convicted of multiple counts of reckless conduct and cruelty to children.

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Gray will be sentenced at a later date, the AP said, adding that second-degree murder is punishable by at least 10 but no more than 30 years in prison; involuntary manslaughter carries a penalty of one to 10 years in prison.

"We talk a lot about rights in our country," Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith told the outlet after the verdict. "But God gave us a duty to protect our children, and I hope that we remember that, as parents, as community members, to protect our children because that is our God-given duty."

The teen's mother, Marcee Gray, wasn't charged, the AP said.

She testified that she urged her estranged husband to lock all guns inside his truck so their son Colt couldn't access them, the outlet noted. She and Colin Gray were separated in the months leading up to the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting, the AP reported, and Colt lived mostly with his father during that time.

Prosecutors said Colin Gray gave Colt the gun he's accused of using in the school shooting as a Christmas gift and allowed him access to it along with ammunition despite the boy's deteriorating mental health, the outlet reported, adding that they said Colin Gray had "sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger" others.

Colt Gray — who was 14 at the time of the shooting — pleaded not guilty to 55 counts, including murder, the AP said, adding that his judge set a status hearing for mid-March.

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Investigators said Colt Gray carefully planned the shooting at the school attended by 1,900 students.

He boarded the school bus with a semiautomatic, assault-style rifle in his book bag, the barrel sticking out and wrapped in poster board, investigators said. He left his second-period class and emerged from a bathroom with the gun and then shot people in a classroom and hallways, investigators said.

Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, prosecutors said.

"It wasn't like one parent missed one warning," Smith told reporters, according to the outlet. "This was multiple warnings over a lengthy period of time and, like we said, you just had to do one thing — take that rifle away, and this would have been prevented."

The AP said Jennifer and James Crumbley — the first U.S. parents held criminally responsible for a mass school shooting committed by a child — are serving 10-year prison terms for involuntary manslaughter after their son Ethan killed four students and wounded others in Michigan in 2021.

The outlet added that Colin Gray was the first such parent to be charged in Georgia.

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‘Why do we have an FBI?’: Georgia school shooter was on FBI’s radar months before attack



Not surprisingly, the shooter behind the Apalachee High School shooting was on the FBI’s radar.

A day after Colt Gray was charged with murder, the father of the 14-year-old shooter was charged with four counts of manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

“My first thought was crimes that the son commits, you don’t hold the father for. Crimes of the father, you don’t hold on the son. That was my first reaction, like what are we doing?” Glenn Beck asks.

The charges came after it was revealed that the father purchased an AR-15 style rifle to give to his son as a Christmas gift last year.

“I got my first gun from my grandfather when I was like, 12,” Glenn comments in disbelief, adding, “Now I’m thinking to myself, this is another way to get guns.”

However, the case is more complicated than meets the eye, as authorities reportedly visited the pair before the father gifted his son the gun after receiving tips about online school shooting threats.

“This is the information that the FBI had months before the shooting,” Glenn says, noting that the mother has a lengthy rap sheet, including abuse of her children. The shooter’s aunt, Annie Brown, also told the Washington Post that her nephew was struggling with mental health issues and had been “begging for help from everyone around him.”

“So I want to ask. Why do we have an FBI? Why do we have one? You know they’re spying on us illegally for our own safety, but I don’t think it is for our safety, you know, cause they’re not protecting us,” he says, explaining that many of the shooters who carried out mass shootings were also already on the FBI’s radar.

“FBI missed signals in four mass shootings. What the hell are they doing?” Glenn asks.


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NEW report: Apalachee gunman allegedly posted about mass shooting plan because of 'lack of trans acceptance'



Last week, on September 4, 14-year-old Colt Gray opened fire on his classmates and teachers at Apalachee High School in Statham, Georgia. The tragedy left two students and two teachers dead. Colin Gray, Colt’s father, has also been arrested and charged.

This information is all out in the open and being discussed on virtually every news platform.

However, it’s not the full story.

Sara Gonzales has details about the tragedy that are undoubtedly being downplayed or even covered up by the corrupt mainstream media.

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“According to Andy Ngo on Twitter, law enforcement sources speaking to CNN reveal that the Discord account belonging to the Georgia mass school shooting suspect allegedly had posts about plans for a mass shooting over grievances about the lack of trans acceptance,” she reports.

“So plan on this story getting no coverage now,” adds Grant Stinchfield, host of "Stinchfield Tonight."

“Can we now go to all the people that coerced him and mind-polluted him and caused him to fall off the cliff and told him he can pick his gender? ... All of them are culpable,” says Jaco Booyens, host of "The Bottom Line.”

Sara then points to the Covenant School shooter, whose manifesto was recently leaked after being kept under lock and key for well over a year because the shooter was trans and her journal proved the shooter’s violence was directly tied to radical leftist ideologies.

“You're not allowed to ask questions once we find out that [the shooter is] part of the special interest group,” she says, condemning the mainstream media’s decision to “just disappear things” when they don’t fit the accepted narrative.

“It is amazing the sheer number of these mass shooters that are now identifying themselves as trans individuals,” says Stinchfield.

“It’s a social engineering project. ... This is how you break a nation,” says Booyens.

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