Georgia college capturing suspect makes first courtroom look

The 14-year-old charged with killing two fellow college students and two lecturers at his Georgia highschool made his first courtroom look on Friday – along with his father, who was arrested late on Thursday, set to look shortly afterwards.

Colt Grey appeared in particular person, wearing inexperienced jail scrubs and arms and ankles shackled to his waist on the listening to in Barrow county courthouse, having beforehand been understood to be planning to attend by video hyperlink. He traveled from the youth detention facility through which he’s being held. He’s being detained there as a juvenile, regardless that he’s anticipated to be tried as an grownup.

The suspect has been charged with 4 counts of felony homicide after he was arrested on Wednesday after a gun rampage at Apalachee highschool in Winder, outdoors Atlanta. 4 individuals had been fatally shot – college students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, each 14, and arithmetic lecturers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53.

An extra 9 individuals had been injured, of whom seven had been understood to have suffered gunshot wounds.

The youthful Grey didn’t enter a plea on Friday, however answered sure when the choose requested him if he might learn and write, and he was accompanied by a lawyer.

The choose, Currie Mingledorff, initially instructed the 14-year-old that he might face the dying penalty, then later introduced the boy again into courtroom to inform him that, as he’s underneath 18, he doesn’t face the dying penalty, and faces the utmost punishment of life in jail with out the potential for parole, if he’s convicted.

The teenager’s father, Colin Grey, 54, was arrested and charged with 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second diploma homicide and eight counts of cruelty to youngsters, the Georgia bureau of investigation has disclosed. The fees are stated to be straight associated to the varsity capturing and to the daddy permitting his son to own a weapon.

On Thursday night time, CNN reported that Colin Grey instructed investigators this week that he had given the AR-15 fashion rifle to his son in December final 12 months as a Christmas current, having purchased it at a neighborhood gun retailer. That may have been seven months after the FBI interviewed each the daddy and son in Could 2023 after having been tipped off about threats to commit a faculty capturing posted on the gaming social media platform Discord.

That investigation was finally closed after investigators had been unable to substantiate the threats.