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Shop NowColin Gray, the 54-year-old father of Apalachee High School mass shooter Colt Gray, is being charged with matching crimes. He practically allowed the tragedy to happen. The entire family is a train wreck in progress. The 14-year-old killer has been dropping clues like breadcrumbs and nobody wanted to see where they were leading.
Father headed for prison
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced on Thursday, September 5, that “the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect has been arrested in connection with the shooting that left four people dead.” They’re charging Colin Gray with “four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.”
Mom Marcee Gray is out of the picture and out of her mind. She has a rap sheet spanning nearly two decades of meth and fentanyl abuse. Currently out of jail on probation, a court order keeps her away from Colin, who she accuses of domestic abuse.
The father admitted giving Colt the “AR-style rifle” used in Wednesday’s shooting. Colt murdered two teachers and two fellow students. He shot seven others, “six students and a teacher.” Two more students “suffered other injuries.” Nobody is sure exactly why yet.
Colt has been charged as an adult with four counts of felony murder. The death penalty is still off the table because he’s a minor, even if he is tried as an adult.
Colin Gray is already behind bars and not expecting to be released ever again. He didn’t bother asking for bond because nobody will pay it. Charged with “knowingly allowing” his son to have a weapon, the judge explained to him that he “could face up to 180 years in prison if convicted on all 14 charges against him.”
He bought the gun as a Christmas present this past December. That’s seven months after The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office interviewed both the boy and his father. They were there to talk about “several anonymous tips about online threats to commit a school shooting at an unidentified location and time” that the FBI was curious about.
No probable cause
In May of 2023, the FBI got specific and credible threats which “included photographs of guns.” Colt Gray “denied making the threats online,” an investigator wrote. Jackson County officials alerted local schools. It didn’t do much good.
Authorities determined “there was no probable cause for arrest or to take any additional law enforcement action on the local, state, or federal levels.” His father admitted “guns were in the house but his son didn’t have access to them.” Apparently, he lied.
A year before that, in July of 2022, “Colt Gray’s family was evicted from their home by a Barrow County sheriff’s deputy for failing to pay rent,” according to court records.
Deputies collected “three firearms, including an AR-15, and at least one hunting bow, and kept them for safekeeping.” The weapons were later released to the father.
Two teachers and two students are dead and along with the nine who were injured physically, the entire student body is traumatized. The shooting happened on only the second day of the school year and it’s blown everyone’s concentration away completely.
At this point it isn’t clear if either the father or son have legal representation. The Barrow County Public Defender’s Office could not confirm or deny it when asked by the press.
