Georgia authorities on Thursday arrested the daddy of 14-year-old Colt Grey, a faculty shooter suspect, in reference to Wednesday’s capturing that killed 4 individuals and injured 9 at Apalachee Excessive Faculty.
Colin Grey, 54, was charged with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree homicide and eight counts of cruelty to youngsters, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stated.
“These prices stem from Mr. Grey knowingly permitting his son Colt to own a gun,” Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, stated at a information convention.
Colt Grey has been charged with 4 counts of felony homicide and can be tried as an grownup, authorities stated.
Each Grays had been questioned by native officers in neighboring Jackson County final 12 months in reference to a web based risk to commit a faculty capturing, however there was no possible trigger for his or her arrest, the FBI stated Wednesday.
In that 2023 investigation, the daddy stated he had searching weapons within the house however that his son didn’t have unsupervised entry to them, and the son denied making the web threats, the FBI stated.
Georgia and Barrow County investigators say Grey used an “AR-style weapon,” or semi-automatic rifle, to hold out the assault that killed two academics and two 14-year-old college students.
It was not clear how the shooter obtained the weapon.
Investigators have but to touch upon what could have motivated the primary mass capturing on a U.S. campus for the reason that begin of the varsity 12 months.
Jackson County sheriff’s investigators closed the case after failing to show that Grey was logged into the Discord account the place the threats have been made, and located no grounds to hunt the warrant wanted to grab the household’s weapons, based on police reviews launched by the sheriff’s workplace Thursday.
“This case was labored, and on the time the boy was 13, and it wasn’t sufficient to make a case,” Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum stated in an interview. “If we get a warrant or cost somebody, we seize the firearms for safekeeping.”
Grey was arrested shortly after the capturing and is being held with out bond on the Gainesville Regional Juvenile Detention Middle, Georgia Division of Juvenile Justice communications director Glenn Allen stated Thursday.
He’s scheduled to seem earlier than a Georgia Superior Courtroom choose in Barrow County on Friday morning through video digicam.
The fees towards Colin Grey observe the April sentencing of the mom and father of a Michigan highschool shooter, believed to be the primary time dad and mom have been held legally chargeable for their youngsters’s actions in a faculty capturing.
In that case, Jennifer and James Crumbley, the dad and mom of Ethan Crumbley, who shot and killed 4 classmates at Oxford Excessive Faculty in 2021, have been sentenced to 10 to fifteen years in jail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. The jury discovered them responsible of failing to maintain weapons of their house and ignoring warning indicators that their son had psychological problems.
Gun security specialists and advocates have stated their trials have been an necessary step towards holding gun-owning dad and mom extra accountable for varsity violence perpetrated by their youngsters. Research by the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety have proven that about 75% of all college shooters acquired their weapons at house.
