Father who bought AR-15 for Georgia school shooter learns fate in first-of-its-kind conviction

Colin Gray received 15 years after a jury found he gave his son the AR-15 used in the Apalachee High School shooting despite mental health warnings.

Colin Gray, 55, was convicted of second-degree murder after his son Colt carried out a school shooting that killed four.

The father of a mass shooter who opened fire at a Georgia high school, killing four people, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing his son with the gun. Colin Gray, 55, was sentenced on Thursday, just two days after his son, Colt Gray, 16, was sentenced to life in prison without the…

Colin Gray was convicted of second degree murder. His son pleaded guilty this week to first-degree murder charges and was sentenced to life without parole.

Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday, two days after his son got life.

A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Colin Gray’s sentencing comes days after his son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the September 4, 2024, shooting

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.

Father of Georgia school shooter sentenced to 15 years in prison  CNN

His son, Colt Gray, had pleaded guilty to murder and other charges.

Prosecutors argued that Colin Gray bore responsibility for the 2024 shooting because he had given his son a gun and failed to act as the teen’s mental health deteriorated.