‘You failed as a parent’: US father gets 15 years’ jail after giving teen son gun used in massacre
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WASHINGTON, July 31 — A US father whose teenage son killed four people in a high school shooting was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday in a rare case involving a parent...
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Colin Gray, 55, was convicted in March of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and other offences over the September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia.
Gray’s son, Colt, then 14, used an AR-15-style rifle his father had given him as a Christmas present in 2023 despite warnings that the teenager had threatened to carry out a school shooting.
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- Jul 31, 2026
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