The father of the Apalachee High School shooter was sentenced to 15 years after being convicted of charges including second-degree murder.

A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia secondary school was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

July 30 (UPI) -- Colin Gray, the father of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday, just two days after his son was sentenced to life in prison.

July 30 - A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia high school was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison, the culmination of the state's first case in which a parent was convicted of second-degree murder for a mass shooting committed by his child. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Prosecutors had sought 80 years for Colin Gray, 55, who gave his son the rifle he used to kill four people. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Prosecutors had sought 80 years for Colin Gray, 55, who gave his son the rifle he used to kill four people. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A sentencing hearing was underway Thursday for a man who gave his son the gun used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia after he was convicted of second-degree mur

Days after a teenager was sentenced to life in prison for killing four people at a Georgia high school in 2024, his father was sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing the gun used in the mass shooting. Colin Gray, 55, was convicted in March on 27 counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct and cruelty to children after less than two hours of deliberations. His son Colt Gray, 16, pleaded guilty to 55 charges, including felony murder, aggravated assault and cruelty to children following the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School. The elder Gray testified during his roughly two-week-long trial that he gave his son the rifle as a Christmas present, but had no idea he was capable of carrying out a mass shooting. "I struggle with it every day," he said during the emotional testimony. Meanwhile, prosecutors argued that Colin Gray should have known the danger his son posed. The case was "about who armed Colt and who enabled him to do what he did," prosecutor Patricia…

A man who gave his son the gun used in a deadly school shooting in Georgia is set to be sentenced Thursday.