Gerrard Kaonga
The father of teenager Colt Gray has now been found guilty following a shooting which saw four people killed and 9 others injured.
Colin Gray had pleaded not guilty to the main charges he faced following the school shooting that rocked Georgia back in 2024.
Students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and teachers Christina Irimie and Richard Aspinwall, died in the attack that happened on September 4 at Apalachee High School in Winder, Barrow County.
A further nine people suffered injuries as a result of the shooting.
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Colt, who was 14 at the time, was arrested on suspicion of the shooting and taken into custody, and he is currently awaiting his own trial after pleading not guilty to 55 felony counts.
Prosecutors accused dad Gray of buying his 14-year-old son an AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas present and giving him access to the weapon, as well as ammunition.
This was despite apparent warnings that his son was a danger to others.
The father was arrested at a later date in connection was the shooting and was hit with 27 charges: two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter, 18 counts of cruelty to children and five counts of reckless conduct.
He has now been found guilty on all charges and faces 10 to 30 years in prison on each murder charge, and one to 10 years on each manslaughter charge.
It was previously revealed that the teenager had been interviewed back in May 2023 by the FBI, after authorities received anonymous reports someone was making 'online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time'.
Gray was interviewed alongside his father, but the teenager denied making the online threats and was subsequently not arrested at the time.
The FBI said in a statement: "The father stated that he had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them [...] At the time, there was no probable cause for an arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state or federal levels."
Barrow County Assistant District Attorney Patricia Brooks told jurors during the trial: "After seeing sign after sign of his son's deteriorating mental state, his violence, his school-shooter obsession, the defendant had sufficient warning that his son was a bomb just waiting to go off."
In the closing arguments of Colin Gray’s trial, she also said: “That man and his son are both responsible for the immense suffering that occurred on September 4.
“The blood is on their hands.”