Overview
- Jurors returned guilty verdicts on all counts after less than two hours of deliberations, including two second-degree murder and two involuntary manslaughter charges.
- Prosecutors said Gray bought his son an AR-15–style rifle as a Christmas gift and let him access it despite prior warnings, an FBI-tip welfare check in 2023, and evidence of a fixation on school shooters.
- Investigators say the weapon was used on Sept. 4, 2024, at Apalachee High School in Winder to kill students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Cristina Irimie.
- Gray was taken into custody after the verdict and faces decades in prison under Georgia sentencing ranges, with 10 to 30 years per murder count and 1 to 10 per manslaughter count.
- Colt Gray, now 16, remains charged as an adult with 55 counts including murder, with no trial date set as pretrial proceedings continue.