Georgia Father on Trial in Connection with School Shooting

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Jurors heard opening statements Monday morning in the trial of Colin Gray, the father of the teenager who allegedly killed four people at his Georgia high school in 2024 ...

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The father of the teenager who allegedly killed four people at his Georgia high school in 2024 is set to stand trial on murder and manslaughter charges in the latest case testing the limits of who is responsible for a school shooting. https://cnn.it/3OlJgFi

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"Georgia has some of the most lax gun laws in the United States.[10] The sale of semi-automatic rifles is legal and requires no permit or gun safety course.

Georgia also has no safe-storage law.[11] A few weeks before the shooting, a group of Georgia lawmakers attempted to pass firearm safety legislation, offering a $300 tax credit to gun owners who purchase safes. The bill was rejected.[12]

"Gray's father, Colin O. Gray (born August 10, 1970), then aged 54, was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

He allegedly purchased the firearm used in the shooting as a Christmas gift for his son, despite the Jackson County Sheriff's Office visiting him and telling him about his son's threats.[34][35] Gray's parents are divorced.[36]"

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-16 01:32 PM | Reply

He allegedly purchased the firearm used in the shooting as a Christmas gift for his son

Should be an interesting case, but I doubt anything will come from it.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-02-16 04:49 PM | Reply

3 dead, 3 injured in shooting at Pawtucket ice rink

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Didn't stinky promise to end American carnage?

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-16 07:42 PM | Reply

Dummkopf Trumpf certainly did do something to end America's firearm carnage: www.whitehouse.gov

See?

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-16 08:05 PM | Reply

PEDO DONNIE can't change his own ------- diaper

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-17 01:02 AM | Reply

What you complaining about? It was one of your mental cases you protect all the time so STFU.

#6 | Posted by fortfisher at 2026-02-17 08:09 AM | Reply

From the article: "This is not a case about holding parents accountable for what their children do. That's not what this case is about," Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said in his opening statement Monday. "This case is about this defendant and his actions - his actions in allowing a child that he has custody over access to a firearm and ammunition after being warned that that child was going to harm others."

If the bold part is true he deserves jail time.

#7 | Posted by qcp at 2026-02-17 11:49 AM | Reply

Dad and his son can bunk together in State, where they can fend off attacks from the prison gangs, black and white...

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2026-02-17 12:04 PM | Reply

"testing the limits of who is responsible for a school shooting."

At a societal level, our gun control policy as carried out by the Second Amendment bears most of the responsibility for school shootings.

Compare the frequency of school shootings in any other country to the United States.

The United States wins by a country mile.

Because only the United States has a Second Amendment.

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-17 12:09 PM | Reply

Didn't stinky promise to end American carnage?

Then one of his first acts was to overturn an Obama policy that prevented people with known mental illness from getting a gun.