Colin Gray, 55, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on July 30, 2026, for providing the assault rifle used in the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting that killed four people. The sentence concludes prosecutions aimed at holding parents accountable for mass shooting prevention failures.
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BREAKING: Georgia school shooter’s father is sentenced to 15 years for giving his teenage son the assault rifle used in the deadly attack.
The sentence brings to an end the latest in a series of prosecutions that aim to hold parents accountable for not preventing their children from committing mass shootings.
A Barrow County judge sentenced Colin Gray, 55, to 15 years in prison Thursday after a jury found him criminally culpable for the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting carried out by his son, Colt Gray [bbc.co.uk#1][cbsnews.com#1][fox9.com#1]. Colin Gray admitted he provided the assault rifle used by his then-14-year-old son in the September 2024 attack, in which two students and two teachers were k
July 30 - A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia high school was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison, the culmination of the state's first case in which a parent was convicted of second-degree murder for a mass shooting committed by his child.
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A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia secondary school was sentenced to 15 years in prison.