Overview
- Colin Gray filed a motion on Wednesday asking a Barrow County judge to grant a new trial, saying the March jury verdict was unsupported by the evidence and contrary to law.
- A jury found Gray guilty in March on 27 counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children for supplying the AR-style rifle used in the Sept. 4, 2024 attack.
- Judge Nicholas Primm sentenced Gray to 15 years on July 30 after prosecutors sought 80 years and the judge criticized Gray for failing to get his son mental health help.
- Colt Gray pleaded guilty in late July to 55 counts, including malice murder, and received life without parole for the shootings that killed two students and two teachers and wounded nine others.
- The new motion starts a legal phase that could produce further rulings and appeals and that may shape how courts hold parents criminally responsible when children carry out mass shootings.