The father of the perpetrator of the Georgia shooting has been arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter

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2024-09-06 00:46:40

Authorities of Georgia (USA) They arrested the young father who killed four people on Thursday in a shooting at his school in Winsor town and is charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter.

According to the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (OIG), Chris Hosey, in a press conference, Colin Gray, 54, has been take in connection with shooting done by his son Colt Gray, 14, at Apalachee High School.

In addition to the murder charges for the deceased individual, the suspect’s father is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of child cruelty, all stemming from him “intentionally allowing his son Colt to hold a gun,” Hosey said.

The authorities have also done it arrests related to “incidents of other students making threats today in many schools” in the state of Georgia, added the director of the OIG, who did not give more details as it is an open investigation.

The young man, who used an AR-15 semi-automatic weapon, was investigated a year ago by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Georgia for allegedly threatening a school shooting on the Internet, and then asked your hand with it. your father During the interrogation, the young man denied that he made the threats, and his father said that he had a weapon at home, but it was safe from his son.

Colt Gray, arrested at the scene, faces four counts of murder for which he will be tried as an adult, and it is expected that tomorrow, Friday at 8:30 local time (12:30 GMT) the charges will be formally read before the judge.

Those killed in the shooting at the Apalachee center have been identified as two students, Christian Angulo and Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and two math teachers, Christina Irimie, 53, and Richard Aspinwall, 39. In of the nine injured in that shooting, two were injured. has been released and seven others are in hospital, but there are no fears for their lives, Hosey added.

Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said at the conference that the district “is one of (because) a young man took a gun into a school, did a bad thing, killed people and hurt many others, not only physically but meditation.” Gray’s father’s indictment comes in the wake of the 2021 Michigan school shooting by a minor, Ethan Crumbley, that killed four students, and in which the perpetrator’s parents were charged and convicted of first-degree murder. first.

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