Case against Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooting suspect, tests the limits of parental blame
The swift decision by prosecutors to charge the father of the 14-year-old suspect in the Georgia high school shooting will be another test of whether parents can be held criminally responsible for their children's actions.
The swift decision by prosecutors to charge the father of the 14-year-old suspect in the Georgia high school shooting will be another test of whether parents can be held criminally responsible for their children's actions.
The charges against Colin Gray came months after the parents of a Michigan school shooter were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter — the first parents in the U.S. to be convicted in their child’s mass shooting.
While details in the case against Gray, 54, remain limited, Georgia authorities arrested him Thursday on allegations that he had allowed his son to possess a weapon.
Gray made his first court appearance Friday morning, separately from his son, Colt Gray, 14, who had appeared earlier. The judge said the son faces four counts of felony murder in the deaths of two students and two teachers in a shooting spree Wednesday morning at Apalachee High School in Winder, where the suspect is a freshman. Nine others were wounded in the attack.
Colin Gray rocked back and forth in his chair and looked down during his appearance as the judge said he was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children in the second degree.
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