The father of the mass shooting suspect accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as a holiday present for his son in December 2023, according to two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
Colt Gray, a 14-year-old student, is accused of killing two students and two teachers with an AR-style rifle in the Wednesday shooting. Nine more people were hospitalized.
One source told CNN the AR-15-style rifle was purchased at a local gun store as a Christmas present.
So his son was being investigated for making threats to shoot up the school and he decided that the best gift was a gun that could allow his son to act on those threats.
Charging him in connection with the shooting seems appropriate.
Yup they can go the same route as the Oxford, MI shooter and charge the parents. They got 10 years, if more parents got charged parents might wise up. This sounds 100% the exact same situation. Oxford kids parents told him not to get caught next time when he was in trouble for looking at ammunition during school.
Yeah, this is where I have issue. I grew up around guns and hunting. When I passed my safe hunters I got my first 12 gage shotgun and then got a 410 later that year along with a 50 cal black powder rifle and the. Get a few AR’s and AK/SKS’s along the way. I grew up respecting them and it was a normal part of life. People had gun racks in their trucks with guns in them in high school at the time.
But this kid obviously had issues and they should have been in a safe away from him. I do think holding parents liable with start changing things slowly. I wish it was an over night change but we need to do it more often
I absolutely don’t see an accessory charge at minimum as being too far of a stretch either. Lock both of them up.
Call me crazy, but I don’t think children should own guns.
But but the real issue is them being exposed to drag queens!
imagine how much worse this would be if the child in question went to drag time story hour instead of being given a killing machine! /s
he gifted him a gun to protect him from school shooting. that’s right-wing logic
I was gonna write a witty but bleak reply to this but I’m not gonna. Have a nice day
Did he think the kid was going to carry it around the school all day every day? Did he know that school shootings tend to happen … in schools?
I grew up in a rural area with just my mom. We had two handguns and a shotgun hidden in the house. Anytime we went walking in the pasture a gun came with us in case of snakes or wild dogs and a couple of times per year i was required to shoot at cans with each one. I wasn’t interested in them and didn’t like shooting them, but understood her desire for me to feel comfortable using them ‘just in case’. We often took long road trips to visit family and would stop to nap in rest areas for a few hours. The small handgun was always beside the driver’s seat. It was the 70s and early 80s and nothing was locked. 22 in the nightstand drawer, 38 in a dresser drawer, and shotgun behind her bedroom door - all loaded and ready. It didn’t seem weird; it was just what my mom did to try to keep us safe.
Not everybody is fortunate to have responsibility and be mentally sane. Even the father in this case probably told the kid the to dos and not to dos of owning a gun (or not. Idk man). But you know, all this happened.
Yeah. I don’t really know why i shared all of that. Just struggling to make sense of something senseless, i guess. i visit several schools per day and we all whine about the inconvenience of badge fobs, locked classrooms, being required to put the alert app on our phones and then having it constantly going off all day with every drill at every school, etc. Then when something like this happens i feel shitty for whining, heartbroken for those families, and thankful that it wasn’t my schools, teachers, kids, … It sucks. And the worst part is that we know it will happen again and again. Rambling…sorry.
You are just showing sympathy toward others. That’s okay.
Yeah all good man. I definitely appreciated your story. I also think that responsible citizens should be able to carry. We shouldn’t be handing guns to untrained maniacs out here. Ideally, your family would be a shining example of how to be responsible gun owners.
My dad gave me a gun for one of my earlier birthdays. It was a bolt action .22 that went right into a gun safe that I couldn’t access…It was a pretty shitty present as I didn’t enjoy hunting at the time but in retrospect I’m glad I learned gun safety and shooting.
Why the fuck would you buy a 14 year old an AR15 style rifle, especially after he already had a history of making school shooting threats at school? Dude deserves prison for a long time.
After they had been contacted by investigators over concerns the kid wanted to do a school shooting.
This is why red flag laws need to be a thing.
The buried lede-
The timeline the teen’s father provided to authorities would put the gun purchase months after authorities first contacted Gray and his family to investigate school shooting threats made online.
Sounds like accessory to murder to me.
Funny that, Colin Gray, father of Colt (the shooter) has been officially charged
2 counts of murder 2
4 counts of involuntary manslaughter
8 counts of cruelty to children
I wonder how they settled on 2 counts of murder. Maybe that implies they think 2 victims were targetted and 2 were in the wrong place at the wrong time?
It’s a quirk in Georgia’s law where cruelty to children and their death gets those charges upgraded to murder 2.
How quirky
Oh absolutely. Throw that fucker in jail. He’s more responsible than the kid.
Yeah, I’m wondering how many people failed that kid for him to end up in a place where he decided to throw away his life to lash out in a way that couldn’t be ignored or swept under a rug.
Ultimately, this is probably the root of the problem more than the access to guns are because a kid that wants to shoot up his school but can’t get a gun to do so is still a tragedy and could still turn deadly.
Edit: not that guns aren’t too easy to access in the US
Never buy your adolescents guns parents, as a matter of fact, don’t let them have guns where you can’t see them
There are places where training your kids in an age appropriate manner is the right thing to do. But of course it’s the parent’s responsibility to do that correctly, supervise use, and remove any firearms if there are problems.
What’s wrong with legos. Nobody is ever killed with legos.
I’d rather die than step on one, though.
I have wanted to amputate my foot after stepping on one.
Multi-colored dark carpet is the best place to scatter a few handfuls, then sit back and watch.
Well we found Dr. Evil…
I mean, they are basically microplastic. Having said that, my kid loves em and I still buy them for him.
Lego has shifted (or is trying to shift) towards a more plant based, biodegradable plastic. They have to put a big effort because their entire product line is based on a material that has (rightfully so) negative connotations.
I was gifted a shotgun at 15. It was a double barrel break action shotgun from my grandmother.
I kept it in a gun rack my grandfather left me hanging on my wall. I never had issues, but if one of my friends wanted access, it probably could have been stolen.
Lock up your guns.
If you can Ban someone from buying their CHILD a GUN after that Child makes THREATS TO SHOOT UP HIS SCHOOL that’s SOCIALISM! SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!
Guns kill people. Wow it’s so complicated. Americans need to examine their culture
Is he named Colt after the gun?
Maybe the beer.
Don’t bring Billy Dee into this
Well, now I know why the dad has been arrested on second degree murder and a whole slew of charges.
trash deserves to be thrown out :)
Did they really name him after a gun too?
Many guns are named after people who distributed, produced, or designed them.
So he is a guy named after a gun that was named after a guy.
It’s the perfect hunting rifle for when a herd of deer stampedes.
Lost a lot of good men out there in the deer stampede hunts
And there was another shooting today with 1 dead. 2 shootings in one week. More thoughts and prayers of course. 🙄
Mass shooting murderer children literally named after guns now…
We’re kind of running out of space here. Next “breaking news” story on CNN will be,
“A sentient gun/child hybrid in Arkansas, named Hollowpoint Reginald Babykiller, just massacred an entire classroom of other gun children using his arms, which are also guns.”
[News anchor turns and shoots all the talking heads on discussion panel]
“To our next story, the inexplicable growing labor shortage in factories built with child sized equipment continues to grow…”
It’s nice when kids enjoy their birthday presents.
