© 2025 WUGA | University of Georgia
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

The judge overseeing two cases involving Apalachee High School shooting has recused himself

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre
Published November 8, 2024 at 4:09 PM EST
Law enforcement arrive as students are evacuated to the football stadium after the school campus was placed on lockdown at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
(AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
Law enforcement arrive as students are evacuated to the football stadium after the school campus was placed on lockdown at Apalachee High School in Winder, Ga., on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

The judge in the Apalachee High School shooting case has recused himself because of this pending retirement.

The case was reassigned to Judge Sarah Griffie, appointed in August by Gov. Brian Kemp to serve as a Superior Court judge for the judicial circuit. Griffie was hired as an assistant district attorney in Barrow County in 2007 and had served as Chief Assistant District Attorney since 2016 prior to being named a judge.

Currently, 14 year old Colt Gray remains in the Barrow County Jail charged with killing four people during a shooting spree September 4th. He’s been indicted on 55 charges. His father, Colin Gray, is facing 29 charges for providing his son with a gun. Colin Gray remain in custody.
Local News
Jeff Dantre
Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
See stories by Jeff Dantre
Related Content