A grand jury indicted each a father and son on homicide costs Thursday in a mass taking pictures at Apalachee highschool in Winder, Georgia.
Georgia media shops reported that the Barrow county grand jury assembly in Winder indicted 14-year-old Colt Grey on a complete of 55 counts, together with 4 counts of malice homicide, 4 counts of felony homicide, plus aggravated assault and cruelty to youngsters. Grand jurors formally charged his father, Colin Grey, with 29 counts, together with second-degree homicide, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct.
The deputy court docket clerk Missy Headrick confirmed that Colin and Colt Grey had been indicted in separate indictments. She stated the clerk’s workplace had not but processed the indictments and that the paperwork doubtless wouldn’t be obtainable to the general public till Friday.
Each are scheduled to seem for arraignment on 21 November, when every would formally enter a plea. Colin Grey is being held within the Barrow county jail. Colt Grey is charged as an grownup however is being held in a juvenile detention middle in Gainesville. Neither has sought to be launched on bail and their attorneys have beforehand declined to remark.
Investigators testified Wednesday throughout a preliminary listening to for Colin Grey that Colt Grey carried a semiautomatic assault-style rifle on the college bus on 4 September, with the barrel protruding of his e book bag, wrapped up in a poster board. They are saying the boy left his second-period class and emerged from a toilet with the rifle earlier than taking pictures folks in a classroom and hallways.
The taking pictures killed academics Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, and college students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, each 14. One other trainer and eight extra college students had been wounded, seven of them hit by gunfire.
Investigators have stated {the teenager} fastidiously plotted the taking pictures on the 1,900-student highschool northeast of Atlanta. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified that the boy left a pocket book in his classroom with step-by-step handwritten directions to organize for the assault. It included a diagram of his second-period classroom and his estimate that he may kill as many as 26 folks and wound as many as 13 others. “Shocked if I make it this far,” the boy wrote.
There had lengthy been indicators that Colt Grey was troubled.
Colt and Colin Grey had been interviewed about a web-based risk linked to Colt Grey in Could 2023. Colt Grey denied making the risk on the time. He enrolled as a freshman at Apalachee after the present educational 12 months started after which skipped a number of days of faculty. Investigators stated he had a “extreme anxiousness assault” on 14 August. A counselor stated he reported having suicidal ideas and rocked and shook uncontrollably whereas in her workplace.
Colt’s mom, Marcee Grey, who lives individually, informed investigators that she had argued with Colin Grey in August, asking him to safe his weapons and prohibit Colt’s entry. As a substitute, over time, he purchased the boy ammunition, a gun sight and different taking pictures equipment, data present.
After Colt Grey requested his mom to place him in a “psychological asylum”, the household organized to take him on 31 August to a psychological well being remedy middle in Athens that provides in-patient remedy, however the plan fell aside when his mother and father argued about Colt’s entry to weapons the day earlier than, and his father stated he didn’t have the gasoline cash, an investigator stated.
Colin Grey’s indictment is the newest instance of prosecutors holding mother and father liable for their youngsters’s actions at school shootings. Michigan residents Jennifer and James Crumbley, the primary to be convicted in a US mass faculty taking pictures, had been sentenced to not less than 10 years in jail for not securing a firearm at dwelling and performing indifferently to indicators of their son’s deteriorating psychological well being earlier than he killed 4 college students in 2021.
“On this case, your honor, he had major custody of Colt,” district legal professional Brad Smith informed the decide Wednesday at Colin Grey’s preliminary listening to. “He had data of Colt’s obsessions with faculty shooters. He had data of Colt’s deteriorating psychological state. And he offered the firearms and the ammunition that Colt used on this.”
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