(SRN NEWS/AP/97.5 GLORY FM) – The father of the Apalachee High School shooter, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison after giving his son the gun he used in the shooting, has requested a new trial.
Colin Gray was convicted earlier this year by a Hall County (change of venue) jury of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. In a court filing Wednesday in Barrow County Superior Court, his attorneys argued the jury’s guilty verdict is not supported by the evidence and is “contrary to law and the principles of justice and equity.”
Two students and two teachers were killed in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting. His son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole also last week.
Prosecutors said Colin Gray gave his son the semiautomatic rifle as a Christmas gift along with ammunition, and other shooting accessories. He is now housed at the Georgia Diagnostic Classification Prison in Jackson, south of Atlanta.