Jennifer Crumbley

Colin Gray, father of a 16-year-old involved in a 2024 Georgia school shooting, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing his son the murder weapon. The attack at Apalachee High School killed four people, including two teachers and two students, and injured others. Colin Gray is the first parent in U.S. history convicted of second-degree murder for a son’s school shooting.

Colin Gray, the father of a 14-year-old who committed a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia in 2024, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for failing to secure the gun used in the attack. Gray, the first parent in the U.S. to be convicted of second-degree murder for providing a gun to their child, gave his son a semiautomatic rifle for Christmas despite prior warnings about the teen's mental health and online threats.