A father and son are indicted on murder counts in the Georgia high school massacre. A Georgia grand jury indicted a father and son on murder charges Thursday following a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder.
According to Georgia media sites, on Thursday, the Barrow County grand jury in Winder indicted 14-year-old Colt Gray on 55 counts, including four counts of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, aggravated assault, and cruelty to minors. His father, Colin Gray, is charged with 29 charges, including second-degree murder, wrongful death, and reckless conduct.
The deputy court clerk, Missy Headrick, confirmed that Colin and Colt Gray had been indicted separately. She stated that the clerk’s office had not yet processed the indictments and that the documents would likely not be publicly available until Friday.
Both are expected to appear for arraignment on November 21, where they will formally enter a plea. Colin Gray is being incarcerated at the Barrow County Jail. Colt Gray is charged as an adult, although he is housed at a juvenile prison facility in Gainesville. Neither has asked to be released on bond, and their lawyers have previously rejected comment.
Investigators testified Wednesday at Colin Gray’s preliminary hearing that he carried a semiautomatic assault-style rifle on the school bus that morning, with the barrel poking out of his book bag and wrapped in a poster board. They claim the teenager left his second-period class and emerged from a lavatory with the weapon before shooting students in the classroom and halls.
The shooting murdered teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, as well as 14-year-old students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo. Another instructor and eight additional children were injured, with seven of them hit by gunfire.
The teenager allegedly left a notebook with instructions for the shooting
Investigators said the teenager methodically planned the attack at the 1,900-student high school northeast of Atlanta. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigator testified that the youngster left a notepad in his classroom with detailed handwritten instructions for the shooting. It featured a schematic of his second-period classroom and his estimation that he could murder 26 people and injure 13 more, saying he’d be “surprised if I make it this far.”
