Father of Georgia school shooting suspect charged and Hunter Biden pleads guilty: Morning Rundown
NBCSEP 13 2024
Colt Gray, 14, and his father Colin Gray on Friday were arraigned in a Georgia courtroom in relation to the Wednesday shooting at Apalachee High School, where two students and two teachers were shot and killed.
The younger Gray faces four counts of felony murder, while his father faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.
Colin Gray, whose charges total a possible 180 years in prison, was arrested Thursday. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation believes the father "knowingly" permitted his son to have a weapon, and the AR platform-style weapon used in the shooting was a Christmas present to the son.
Prior to this tragedy, police may have been able to do more to prevent it. But Georgia's gun laws open the door to these sorts of things happening — and the state's 10th-place ranking for school campus gun violence shows it. It's ridiculous that there's no minimum age requirement for possession of a rifle or shotgun. That allowed the elder Gray to give his son a firearm he never should've been near.