The father of a 14-year-old boy accused of carrying out a deadly mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The Grammy-nominated country star, famous for hits “Need a Favor,” “Son of a Sinner,” and “I Am Not Okay,” played at a Winder, Ga., park for students and families of the school, where a 14-year-old shooter killed two students and two faculty members on Sept. 4, 2024.
A grand jury has indicted both a Georgia teenager and his father after the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder on Sept. 4. Georgia media outlets report that the Barrow County grand jury issued the indictments on Thursday. They charge 14-year-old Colt Gray with a total of 55 counts including murder, aggravated assault and cruelty to children.
Prosecutors say the father of a teenager accused of a deadly high school shooting in Georgia was aware that his son was obsessed with school shooters. The prosecutors said at a Wednesday court hearing that Colt Gray had a shrine for the gunman in the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Students have begun pouring into Apalachee High School weeks after a school shooter killed two students and two teachers. Some students were still uneasy Tuesday about returning.
The mother of a Georgia teenager charged with fatally shooting four people at his high school has been indicted in connection with an alleged domestic incident last year. The indictment charging 43-year-old Marcee Gray in Ben Hill County appears unrelated to the Sept. 4 shootings at Apalachee High School.
Students as young as five demanded stricter gun laws Thursday at the Georgia Capitol, weeks after a deadly school shooting northeast of Atlanta. They marched around the building and into the a senate committee meeting on safe gun storage legislation.
To deter violence, research suggests the best strategy is not harsh punishment for threats but a different tactic, one based on decades of interviews with mass shooters, political assassins and people who survived attacks: threat assessments.
Law enforcement officials have praised technology used by Barrow County schools for enabling a swift response to the shooting earlier this month at Apalachee High School.
The recent shooting at Apalachee High School outside of Atlanta caused more than physical wounds. Medical experts worry a lack of mental health resources in the community — and in Georgia as a whole — means few options for those trying to cope with trauma from the shooting.
Georgia's state House speaker says lawmakers in 2025 will consider new policies after a school shooting killed four at a high school northeast of Atlanta. But Republican Jon Burns is stopping short of Democratic demands.
Many students in Georgia's Barrow County are headed back to class Tuesday. The return comes six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district's Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta.
