Colin Gray Guilty of Murder: First Parent Convicted for Child’s School Shooting in Georgia History
The jury needed less than two hours. Colin Gray is guilty of second-degree murder on all 29 counts—the first parent in Georgia history convicted for a school shooting committed by his child.
The evidence was overwhelming. The FBI warned Colin Gray in 2023 after his son threatened to shoot up a school online. His response? Buy the fourteen-year-old an AR-15 for Christmas seven months later. No safe. No lock. The rifle stayed in Colt Gray’s bedroom next to a shrine of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz—which Colin Gray claimed he thought was “the guy from Green Day.”
His own family sealed the conviction. His daughter testified he asked her to lie to investigators. His estranged wife said she begged him to lock up the guns. Weeks before the Apalachee High School shooting, Colt texted his father: “Whenever something happens just know the blood is on your hands.” Colin Gray convinced himself it meant something else.
The morning of the shooting, Colt sent goodbye texts. Colin Gray read them. He didn’t call the school. Didn’t leave work. Stopped at QuikTrip for a drink on the way home while two teachers and two students lay dead.
Colin Gray took the stand as his only defense witness. He cried. He swore he never saw the evil coming. The jury rejected that entirely—guilty on every count in under two hours.
Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta breaks down the defense strategy that failed, the testimony that sealed Colin Gray’s fate, and whether this verdict creates a new legal standard for parental accountability or remains an outlier for extreme facts. The Crumbleys got manslaughter in Michigan. Georgia got murder. The rules just changed.
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