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Father of accused Apalachee High School shooter to be sentenced next week

Colin Gray, father of Apalachee High School shooting suspect Colt Gray
Barrow County Sheriff's Office
Colin Gray, father of Apalachee High School shooting suspect Colt Gray

Colin Gray, the father of accused Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, will be sentenced next Thursday.

Gray was found guilty back in March on all 27 counts he faced, including multiple counts of murder, cruelty to children, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless conduct.

Jurors had weighed the central contention by prosecutors that Colin Gray had sufficient warning his son was a risk to harm others and that it was criminally negligent to allow his son access to firearms, including the weapon used in the shooting, given to Colt as a Christmas present.

The July 30 sentencing will bring to a close a first-of-its-kind trial in Georgia of a parent of an accused school shooter.

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.
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