Teen and father charged in Georgia school shooting appear in court for the first time
LA TimesColt Gray, 14, who has been charged as an adult with four counts of murder in this week’s school shooting in Winder, Ga., appears in a Barrow County courtroom Friday. The 14-year-old suspect in a Georgia high school shooting that killed four people appeared in court for the first time Friday, before his father was brought into the same courtroom for back-to-back hearings in which their lawyers declined to seek bail. Colt Gray, who has been charged as an adult with four counts of murder, is accused of using a semiautomatic assault-style rifle to kill two fellow students and two teachers Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, outside Atlanta. Arrest warrants said he caused the deaths of others “by providing a firearm to Colt Gray with knowledge that he was threat to himself and others.” The charges come just months after Jennifer and James Crumbley in Michigan became the first parents in the U.S. to be held responsible for a child carrying out a mass school attack.