Father of 14-year-old boy responsible for September school shooting in Georgia pleaded not guilty Multiple news outlets reported Thursday that he was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and child abuse.
Colin Gray, 54, said his son, Colt Gray, attacked Apalachee High School instructors Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimy, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo with a premeditated gun. He is accused of killing four people in a shooting rampage.
Colt Gray was charged with four felonies.
Authorities said that in the months before the Parkland school shooting, the boy kept a photo of the shooter in his room and wrote a detailed plan for the shooting in a notebook. CBS.
Colin was arrested shortly after the incident and booked into the Barrow County Jail.
A few days later, he requested to be separated from other prisoners, citing threats of violence from other prisoners.
“[M]Most notably, social media has enabled a constant flow of information to the public, sparking an untold number of threats against defendants, calling for both harm and violence to befall them, and in some cases calling for the death penalty. There was even something to do. the defendant,” said attorneys Jimmy Berry and Brian Hobbs.
“We are certain that the feelings of anger and retribution that are evident in the collective psyche of our nation and community at large are not reflected in the individuals currently incarcerated,” they added in their filing in Barrow County Superior Court. Ta. .
The FBI previously said Gray was being investigated for threats after the agency received “several anonymous tips” about online comments made by students.
Collin Gray is not the first parent to be charged in connection with a child's shooting. Earlier this year, school shooter Ethan Crumbley's parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, became the first parents in the United States to be indicted and sentenced after their child committed a mass shooting. It became.
