Colin Gray, the father of the suspect accused of killing four people at the school, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of second-degree murder. The man allowed his son to possess a gun.
The father of the teenager accused of opening fire at a high school in the southeastern US state of Georgia, killing four people, has been charged with allowing his son to possess a gun, authorities said.
Colin Gray, 54, father of suspect Colt Gray, He was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) reported Thursday in a post on social networks.
He is charged with the following:
– 4 counts of manslaughter
– 2 counts of second degree murder
– 8 counts of cruelty to children.(23)
— GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) September 5, 2024
“These charges stem from the fact that Mr. Gray knowingly allowed his son, Colt, to possess a gun,” GBI Director Chris Hosey said at a news conference.
“Her allegations are directly related to her son’s actions and the fact that she allowed him to possess a gun.”aggregate
The suspect in Wednesday’s shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder is 14 years old, is in custody and will be charged with murder and tried as an adult, local authorities said.
The teenager killed four people, two students and two teachers at the high school, and wounded nine others, the GBI director said.
Colt Gray, the “calm” and “very calm” 14-year-old boy who killed four people in an American school
Police received an alert call at 10:20 a.m. (3:20 p.m. in Lisbon). The attacker, a student at the school, was found by officers minutes after arriving at the scene and gave himself up as soon as he was surrounded.
It is not yet known whether he was related to the victims, a connection that is being investigated, and no details have been given about the weapon used or how many shots were fired.
The youth has already been questioned and is cooperating with authorities, they added.
Police said it was still too early to have all the information about what happened.
Images broadcast by American media showed the school evacuated, with thousands of students outside.
Several ambulances and police officers were called to the scene, as well as a medical helicopter, which evacuated several people.
Winder, a community about an hour from Atlanta, has a population of 18,338 people, according to census data.
The Gun Violence Archive, a platform that documents acts of gun violence in the United States, said on Friday that There have been 384 mass shootings in the country so far this year, term that includes a minimum of four people injured or killed, not counting the aggressor.
“We can no longer accept this as normal,” US President Joe Biden said in a statement released by the White House, in which he defended the collaboration of Republicans in Congress to increase controls and prohibitions on the use of firearms.
US Vice President and Democratic candidate for the White House, Kamala Harris, called for decisive action against violence linked to individual gun ownership.
Former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump called the shooter a “sick and deranged monster” on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Source: Observadora
