Authorities in Georgia (USA) arrested the father this Friday, Thursday. of the 14-year-old boy who killed four people in a shooting at his school on Wednesdayin the town of Winsor and charged him with four counts of involuntary manslaughter. The gun the boy fired was one his father bought him as a gift.
As Georgia Bureau of Investigation (OIG) Director Chris Hosey reported at a news conference, Colin Gray, 54, was arrested in connection with the shooting this wednesday by his son Colt Gray, 14, 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 of child cruelty, all stemming from “knowingly allowing his son Colt to pick up a firearm,” Hosey said.
He used a rifle type weapon
Authorities also made arrests in connection with “incidents involving other students who They made threats today in several schools“in the state of Georgia,” added the director of the OIG, who did not give further details because it was an open investigation. The young man, who used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle type weapon, A year ago, he was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Georgia for allegedly threatening to cause a school shooting online and was later questioned along with his father.
During this interrogation, the young man was responsible for the threats and his father stated that he had weapons at home but they were in the custody of the sonColt Gray, arrested at the scene, faces four counts of murder for which he will be tried as an adult, and the charges are scheduled to be formally read to him in front of a judge at 8:30 a.m. local time (12:30 GMT) on Friday.
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, 39Of 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 a rally that the community “He is heartbroken (because) a young person brought a gun into a school, did a heinous act, killed people and injured many others, not only fundamentally 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 perpetrator’s parents were charged and convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the first time.
