{"id":793929,"date":"2026-07-30T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793929\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:36:10","slug":"us-dad-who-gave-gun-to-high-school-shooter-gets-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/793929\/","title":{"rendered":"US dad who gave gun to high school shooter gets 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Colin Gray\u2019s sentencing comes days after his son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the September 4, 2024, shooting at the school 70km (45 miles) northeast of Atlanta. Colt Gray had pleaded guilty to murder and other charges.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A defence lawyer for Colin Gray asked the judge for a sentence that would amount to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years on probation. The district attorney said Gray deserved a sentence of 80 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Judge Nicholas Primm, who also sentenced Colt Gray earlier this week, noted that all of Colin Gray\u2019s crimes were crimes of negligence \u201ctethered to the tragedy committed by his son\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cMy heart aches for everyone that was there that day, for all of you that have been impacted by it. But the law requires that I set aside emotion. I don\u2019t get to sentence with passion. I have the nearly impossible task of sentencing you without passion despite the immeasurable heartache that you caused,\u201d Primm said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Colt Gray is led in by deputies for his sentencing in Winder, Georgia, on Monday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6e59c0a2-48c9-4c35-a3d6-8a1e860c20ce_6e973a2f.jpg\" title=\"Colt Gray is led in by deputies for his sentencing in Winder, Georgia, on Monday. Photo: AP\"\/>Colt Gray is led in by deputies for his sentencing in Winder, Georgia, on Monday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The elder Gray is one of a handful of American parents who have been criminally charged after their children were accused in shootings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,337342,337340,228671,228665,228669,228668,681,337341,337338,1303,3,332970,337339,228670,118346,2079,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-793929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-apalachee-high-school","tag-barrow-county","tag-christian-angulo","tag-colin-gray","tag-colt-gray","tag-cristina-irimie","tag-georgia","tag-jennifer-and-james-crumbley","tag-mason-schermerhorn","tag-michigan","tag-news","tag-nicholas-primm","tag-oxford-high-school","tag-richard-aspinwall","tag-second-degree-murder","tag-shooting","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}