Georgia (USA) authorities They arrested this Thursday the father of the teenager who killed four people Wednesday in a shooting at his school in the town of Winsor and charged him with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.
According to Georgia Bureau of Investigation (OIG) Director Chris Hosey at a press conference, Colin Gray54, was arrested in connection with the shooting committed yesterday by his son Colt Grey14 years old, at Apalachee High School.
In addition to the manslaughter charges for each deceased, the suspect’s father is charged with two counts of second degree murder and eight counts of child cruelty, all stemming from her “knowingly allowing her son Colt to take a firearm,” Hosey said.
Authorities also made arrests related to “incidents of other students making threats today at multiple schools” in the state of Georgia, the OIG director added, who did not provide further details because the investigation is ongoing.
The young man, who used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle type weaponhad been investigated a year ago by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Georgia for allegedly threatening to cause a school shooting over the Internet and was later questioned along with his father.
During the interrogation, the young man denied being responsible for the threats and his father said he had weapons at home, but that they were kept safe from his son.
Colt Gray, arrested at the scene, faces four counts of murder, including will be tried as an adultand it is expected that tomorrow, Friday at 8:30 a.m. local time (12:30 p.m. GMT), the charges will be formally read out before a judge.
Those killed in the Apalachee Center shooting have been identified as two students, Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and two math teachers, Christina Irimie, 53, and Richard Aspinwall, 39.
Of the nine injured in the shooting, two have been released and seven others remain hospitalized, but there is no threat to their lives, Hosey added.
Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said at the conference that the community “is heartbroken (because) a young person brought a gun into a school, committed a heinous act, killed people and injured many others, not only physically but mentally.”
Gray’s father’s indictment follows the precedent of the 2021 Michigan school shooting by a juvenile, Ethan Crumbley, that killed four students, and in which the attacker’s parents were charged and convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the first time.
