Father who gave his son the gun used in a Georgia high school shooting faces sentencing
The father who gave his son the rifle faces sentencing after a jury convicted him on murder, manslaughter and child cruelty counts.
- On Thursday, Colin Gray faces sentencing for his conviction on second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges related to the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Appalachee High School in Georgia.
- Prosecutors established that Gray provided the rifle to his son, Colt Gray, as a Christmas gift, despite warnings from Marcee Gray weeks before the shooting to restrict his access to weapons.
- A jury found Gray guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and involuntary manslaughter for teachers Richard Aspinwall and Cristina Irimie.
- Colt Gray recently received a life sentence for the shooting, while Colin Gray faces at least 10 but no more than 30 years for murder, plus one to 10 years for involuntary manslaughter.
- Gray remains one of few parents charged criminally after their children were accused in school shootings, as investigators noted the teenager had photos of 2018 school shooter Nikolas Cruz in his bedroom.
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Father who gave his son the gun used in a Georgia high school shooting sentenced
Colin Gray was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter after his son, Colt Gray, used the weapon to kill two students and two teachers.
By Eric Levenson, Isabel Rosales and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Days after Colt Gray, the teenage school shooter, was sentenced to life in prison, his father appeared in the same courtroom for his own sentencing in a landmark case that expands the boundaries of responsibility for a mass shooting. Colin Gray, whose The post His son was just sentenced to life in prison for a school shooting. Today, Colin Gray learns his own fate appeared first on KVIA.
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