"Investigators have said Colt Gray, who was 14 at the time, carefully planned the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at the school northeast of Atlanta that is attended by 1,900 students. With a semiautomatic rifle in his book bag, the barrel sticking out and wrapped in poster board, he boarded the school bus, investigators said. He left his second-period class and emerged from a bathroom with the gun and then shot people in a classroom and hallways, they said."
"The indictment says Gray gave his son, Colt, access to a gun and ammunition "after receiving sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the bodily safety of another." Prosecutors argue that amounts to cruelty to children, and second-degree murder is defined in Georgia law as causing the death of a child by committing the crime of cruelty to children."
Colin Gray faces 29 counts, including two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter and numerous counts of second-degree cruelty to children related to the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga. The indictment says Gray gave his son, Colt, access to a gun and ammunition "after receiving sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the bodily safety of another." Investigators say Colt Gray, 14 at the time, carefully planned the attack, brought a semiautomatic rifle onto a school bus and then shot people in classrooms and hallways. A pretrial investigator testified that Colin Gray had given the gun as a Christmas gift and purchased a larger magazine to hold more rounds. Jurors were selected from nearby Hall County after a partial change-of-venue decision moved jurors into the area to hear the case.
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