A Georgia jury discovered Colin Grey responsible Tuesday on costs together with second-degree homicide and manslaughter, stemming from a 2024 mass capturing allegedly dedicated by his teenage son with a rifle he gifted him as a Christmas current.
The jury discovered the 55-year-old Grey responsible of 27 counts. Two different counts have been dropped. The jury deliberated fewer than two hours earlier than returning its verdicts.
Grey is the primary dad or mum in america convicted of homicide because of the alleged acts of their baby after prosecutors in varied U.S. states in recent times have tried to carry dad and mom criminally liable in connection to their kids’s lethal actions.
Colin Grey, the daddy of Apalachee Excessive Faculty capturing suspect Colt Grey, takes the stand throughout his trial on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026 in Atlanta. (AP Photograph/Pool)
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Colin Grey was charged with a number of counts of second-degree homicide, involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and cruelty to kids. He pleaded not responsible to the fees.
Grey’s son, Colt Grey, now 16, allegedly killed two college students and two lecturers and injured eight college students in a Sept. 4, 2024, mass capturing at Apalachee Excessive Faculty in Winder, Georgia, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta.
Colt Grey, the Apalachee Excessive Faculty capturing suspect, walks into the courtroom of Barrow County Superior Court docket Decide Nicholas Primm for a listening to in Winder, Ga., Dec. 9, 2025.
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Colt Grey has been charged as an grownup and is awaiting a separate trial on a number of counts of felony homicide and aggravated assault. He has pleaded not responsible.
Throughout the two-week trial, Barrow County prosecutors introduced proof that Colin Grey had been warned that his son had an affinity for mass shooters and was conscious that Colt saved a shrine in his bed room devoted to the shooter within the 2018 bloodbath at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty in Parkland, Florida.
District Lawyer Brad Smith, left, factors to a weapon that was displayed on the display screen through the first day of the trial of Colin Grey, the daddy of Apalachee Excessive Faculty capturing suspect Colt Grey, February 16, 2026.
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As an alternative of getting his son psychological assist, Colin Grey allegedly gave the boy an AR-15-style weapon as a Christmas current that he finally used to hold out the mass capturing at Apalachee Excessive Faculty, prosecutors alleged.
On Friday, Colin Grey took the witness stand in his personal protection and broke down whereas being questioned about whether or not he seen any “pink flags” that may have led him to consider the boy was able to committing a mass capturing.
“I battle with it on daily basis,” Colin Grey testified. “He is a very good child, you already know? He wasn’t excellent, however to do one thing, uh, that heinous, like I don’t, I don’t know if anyone would see that kind of evil.”
Throughout his testimony, Grey confirmed that he gave his son the AR-15-style rifle as a Christmas current, telling jurors the present got here with guidelines.
“This can be a weapon that I need you to shoot once we go to the vary, and when you hold doing actually good at school, going to high school and doing all of the issues it’s best to, you graduate and also you’re 18, this will probably be your gun,” Colin Grey stated he informed his son.
The landmark responsible verdict comes after a number of dad and mom throughout the nation have been charged and convicted in reference to mass shootings carried out by their kids.
In December 2023, Robert Crimo Jr. pleaded responsible to seven counts of misdemeanor reckless conduct – one depend for every particular person killed by his son, Robert Crimo III – throughout a mass capturing at a Fourth of July Parade within the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. As a part of a plea deal, Crimo Jr. was sentenced to 60 days in jail and two years of probation.
Crimo’s son, who was 19 on the time of the capturing, pleaded responsible to a number of counts of homicide and tried homicide in April 2025 and was sentenced to life in jail with out the potential of parole.
In 2021, Jennifer and James Crumbley turned the primary dad and mom convicted in america of costs stemming from a mass faculty capturing dedicated by their baby. Ethan Crumbley, then 16, pleaded responsible in October 2022 to costs he murdered 4 college students and injured a number of others in a November 2021 capturing at Oxford Excessive Faculty in Oxford Township, Michigan, and was sentenced to life in jail with out parole.
Jennifer and James Crumbley have been discovered responsible of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials after prosecutors introduced proof of an unsecured gun at their residence and their indifference towards their son’s psychological well being. They have been every sentenced to 10 to fifteen years in jail.
