GUILTY GA - Apalachee High School shooting, 4 dead, 9 injured, Winder, Barrow County - 04 September 2024 *father and son arrested* #2

[Tabulator]

I would like to make it extremely clear that what I am going to say is in NO WAY an excuse...

This kid was messed up for a long time and no one in his family did ANYTHING to help him. It sounds like he was very emotionally distured and checked most of the boxes! I wouldn't be surprised if he was referred for testing in middle school, but he and his parents just weren't interested... The kid missed ths entire 8th grade year and his parents did absolutely nothing... That is serious negligence and abuse. He just got worse and worse..

The son killed 4 people and he will go away for life... Again, not excusing or forgiving... But it sucks because if one of his parents could have actually followed through, thiis shooting might never have happened.

I will not print the shooter's name... I want to remember that 2 teachers and 2 students lost their lives. Countless others will be forever affected.

 

[Weki]

It came out on cross that the shooter was expressing violent tendencies as early as elementary school. The useless father deflected all those questions on cross saying he wasn’t as involved because he was the breadwinner at that time. Meanwhile mom is doing meth. Smh

 

[BrittMontero]

Sorry... One more thought...

Once the son is convicted (which I believe he will be), I wonder if father and son will be placed in the same prison?

I don’t know about Georgia but near me are the despicable Crumbleys. They all are in different prisons and (last I heard) prohibited from communicating with one another.

I’m so glad to see another similar conviction. Parents need to be held accountable for outcomes on so many levels, criminality being just one of them.

 

[Prancy]

I thought court tv would be airing the sentencing again, since they showed the trial, but I haven’t seen it even mentioned! Why? I missed it.

 

[Megnut]

I thought court tv would be airing the sentencing again, since they showed the trial, but I haven’t seen it even mentioned! Why? I missed it.

Sentencing hasn't been scheduled yet.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

In March 2026, Colin Gray became the first parent convicted of murder for a mass shooting carried out by his child. His son, Colt, 14, killed two students and two teachers in 2024 at Apalachee High School in Georgia.
Critics of the Crumbley and Gray decisions worry that holding parents responsible for school shootings may lead to parental accountability for a broad range of children’s actions.

That’s because parents already have long been held liable for the actions of their children, as Baylor law professor Dyllan Taxman notes. The previous failure to find parental liability for gun dangers was the exception.
But even if the Crumbley and Gray convictions do not portend the beginning of parental convictions for a new and wide-ranging category of parental actions, they do suggest a growing belief that parents who allow their children easy access to guns are dangerous and unfit.

Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes

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