Police in Georgia have arrested the daddy of the 14-year-old who allegedly killed two college students and two lecturers and injured 9 others in an assault at Apalachee Excessive Faculty in Winder, Georgia.
In accordance with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI), 54-year-old Colin Grey, father of suspected shooter Colt Grey, faces a number of fees together with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree homicide and eight counts of cruelty to kids.
In a submit on social media platform X, previously Twitter, GBI said that the older Grey “knowingly allowed his son, Colt, to have the weapon.”
Second-degree homicide, outlined in Georgia as inflicting the demise of one other particular person whereas committing second-degree cruelty to kids, no matter intent, is punishable by 10 to 30 years in jail. The fees in opposition to the daddy got here after his son was charged with 4 counts of felony homicide in reference to the taking pictures. Extra fees are anticipated for the youthful Grey within the wounding of others on the faculty.
At his first court docket look this morning, Colin Grey was represented by a public defender and didn’t ask for bond. With all the costs filed in opposition to him, the elder Grey might resist 180 years in jail.
Colin Grey’s arrest got here as experiences surfaced in regards to the FBI having investigated the youthful Grey final yr for allegedly making nameless threats to shoot up a college. In accordance with the sheriff’s workplace, authorities weren’t capable of substantiate the risk and the investigation was closed.
On the time, in accordance with a Fox Information report, the daddy instructed investigators through the go to to Grey’s dwelling that he had searching rifles in the home, however that “Colt is allowed to make use of them when supervised however doesn’t have unfettered entry to them.”
Now, nevertheless, federal regulation enforcement sources near the investigation are saying that the gun used within the assault, an AR-style rifle, was bought by the elder Grey as a present for his son final December, possible ensuing within the severe fees.
Matthew Kilgo, an lawyer with Georgia Gun Attorneys and an unbiased program lawyer for U.S. LawShield, stated due to the particular fees in opposition to the elder Grey, prosecutors will possible have their work minimize out for them. The state doesn’t have a protected storage regulation, and among the many preliminary fees, involuntary manslaughter usually offers with acts aside from a felony, which the daddy has not been charged with.
“The problem facilities round whether or not the daddy’s act or failure to behave [in allowing the juvenile access to the firearm] constituted negligence {that a} cheap particular person wouldn’t have dedicated,” Kilgo stated. “It’s so broad and muddy that any act that the state at this level might understand that the dad took that may have allowed his son to realize entry to the gun might be OK for charging as a result of the extent of proof for charging, possible trigger, is so many steps down the wrung from past cheap doubt. The issue then turns into that stage of proof will get raised extraordinarily excessive whenever you go to trial. So, that very same stage that may trigger you to be arrested is probably not sufficient to trigger you to be convicted. And it’s obtained to be that stage of negligence {that a} cheap particular person would or wouldn’t have taken. The proof they may want for the cruelty to kids and second diploma homicide fees to be confirmed might want to present the dad’s actions—or failures to behave—deviated from what a ‘cheap particular person’ would do.”
The fees in opposition to Colin Grey come simply 5 months after the dad and mom of a Michigan teen who killed 4 college students at Oxford Excessive Faculty in 2021 have been every sentenced to 10 years in jail for not stopping their son from possessing the gun he used within the murders.
“These convictions should not about poor parenting,” Oakland County Decide Cheryl Matthews stated on the time. “These convictions verify repeated acts, or lack of acts, that would have halted an oncoming runaway practice.”
As we reported earlier immediately, the taking pictures at Apalachee Excessive Faculty in Georgia has resulted in widespread calls from anti-gun activists for extra restrictive gun legal guidelines.
