Georgia high school shooter Colt Gray makes shock plea in court

Georgia precocious schoolhouse shooting fishy Colt Gray has asked for a assemblage proceedings aft pleading not blameworthy to sidesplitting 4 successful the massacre past month.

The 14-year-old waived an arraignment that had been scheduled for November 21, arsenic reported by Fox News. 

Gray is charged with the murders of 2 chap students and 2 teachers astatine Apalachee High School successful Winder, extracurricular Atlanta. 

Last week a Barrow County expansive assemblage indicted Gray arsenic an big connected a full of 55 counts, including execution successful the deaths of 4 radical and 25 counts of aggravated assault.

Grand jurors besides formally charged his father, Colin Gray, with 29 counts, including 2 counts of second-degree execution and 2 counts of involuntary manslaughter. Both besides look aggregate counts of cruelty to children.

Because Gray a juvenile, the maximum punishment helium would look is beingness without parole. 

Teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, were killed successful the wide shooting, arsenic good arsenic students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, some 14.

Colin Gray has not yet entered a plea. He is accused of committing cruelty to children by giving his lad entree to a weapon and ammunition 'after receiving capable informing that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the bodily information of another,' the indictment states.

Second-degree execution is an antithetic complaint nether Georgia law, resulting from a decease of a kid erstwhile idiosyncratic is committing the transgression of cruelty to children. 

Police accidental the elder Gray was alert that his lad was obsessed with schoolhouse shooters and adjacent had a shrine supra his location machine for the gunman successful the 2018 massacre successful Parkland, Florida.

Colin Gray had besides fixed his son, Colt, the assault-style limb utilized successful the shooting as a Christmas acquisition and was alert that his son’s intelligence wellness had deteriorated successful the weeks earlier the shooting, investigators testified.

Investigators person said the teen cautiously plotted the shooting astatine the 1,900-student precocious schoolhouse northeast of Atlanta. 

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation cause testified that the lad near a notebook successful his schoolroom with step-by-step handwritten instructions to hole for the assault. 

It included a diagram of his second-period schoolroom and his estimation that helium could termination arsenic galore arsenic 26 radical and coiled arsenic galore arsenic 13 others. 

'Surprised if I marque it this far,' the lad wrote. 

Because he’s a juvenile, the maximum punishment helium would look is beingness without parole.