14-Year-Old Suspect and Dad Indicted in Apalachee High School Shooting that Killed 4

Mar. 15, 2025

Colt Gray (left, in mugshot) and Colin Gray (right, in mugshot).Photo:HANDOUT/Barrow County Sheriff’s Office/AFP via Getty (2)

HANDOUT/Barrow County Sheriff’s Office/AFP via Getty (2)

A14-year-oldandhis fatherhave both been indicted on dozens of charges connected to theApalachee High School shootingin whichfour people were killedin Winder, Ga., on Sept. 4.

Colt Gray, 14 – who will betried as an adult– is indicted on 55 criminal counts, among them four counts of malice murderfor the deaths of two students – Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, 14 – and two teachers – Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53. (Another nine people were injuredin the shooting.)

The teen is additionally charged with 18 counts of first-degree cruelty to children and multiple counts of aggravated assault and aggravated battery.

Colin Gray at his first court appearance at Barrow County Courthouse, Sept. 6, 2024.Brynn Anderson-Pool/Getty

Brynn Anderson-Pool/Getty

His father, Colin Gray, is indicted on 29 counts, among them two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of reckless conduct.

The Grays are due in court for arraignment on Nov. 21, Chief Assistant District Attorney Patricia Brooks confirms to PEOPLE.

The elder Gray’s lawyers – Jimmy Berry and Brian Hobbes – were not immediately available for comment. PEOPLE was not immediately able to contact the teen’s lawyer.

The charges against the elder Gray are the first ever in the state filed against the parent of an alleged school shooter, Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith said in September, perNBC News.

Clockwise from top left: Christian Angulo, Richard Aspinwall, Christina Irimie, Mason Schermerhorn.

The elder Gray isaccusedof gifting his son the AR-15-style rifle – used in Georgia’s deadliest ever school shooting – for Christmas,The New York Timesreports.

After the Sept. 4 shooting, investigators allege they recovered a notebook from the teen’s first-period class in which he mapped out the classrooms and hallways and estimated how many people he could wound or kill in a shoot-out, investigators said in court, perThe Times.

In another note following the shooting, perThe Times, the teen allegedly told his family, “It’s not your fault,” and begged their forgiveness, saying, “It’s out of my control.”

Colin Gray at his first court appearance at the Barrow County Courthouse, Sept. 6, 2024.Brynn Anderson-Pool/Getty

The Sept. 4 shooting was not the first time the shooting suspect had come to the attention of authorities, the FBI’s Atlanta Division has said in a statement. In May 2023, law enforcement interviewed him aboutallegedly threatening to shoot up a school.

FBI Atlanta said in the statement that Colin Gray confirmed he “had hunting guns in the house, but the subject did not have unsupervised access to them,” and that his son had “denied making the threats online.”

Ultimately, authorities had determined that there was no probable cause for an arrest or additional law enforcement action, but FBI Atlanta said that local schools had been made aware of the allegations for “continued monitoring of the subject.”

source: people.com