Teen Charged in Georgia School Shooting Changes Plea to Guilty

Colt Gray, 16, had been scheduled to go on trial in October. His change of plea took place at a hearing that pivoted immediately to sentencing.

By Sean Keenan and Rick Rojas

Georgia school shooter handed victims’ families ‘life sentence of trauma’, court hears

Colt Gray, who was 14 at time of attack on Apalachee high school, admits 55 charges including four counts of murder The wife of a teacher killed in a high school shooting in Georgia two years ago told a court on Friday that the families of the four victims had been handed “a life sentence of grief and trauma” by the teenage student who murdered them. Shayna Aspinwall, whose husband Richard died at Apalachee high school, about 45 miles north-east Atlanta, on 4 September 2024, was speaking at t...

By Richard Luscombe and agency

Georgia high school shooting suspect Colt Gray changes plea to guilty, now faces life in prison

Colt Gray, the suspect in the 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia, now faces life in prison after entering a guilty plea on Friday.

US school shooter pleads guilty in Georgia following father’s conviction

Colt Gray pleads guilty to killing two students and two teachers in 2024 attack, which upped scrutiny of parental role.

School shooter Colt Gray pleads guilty to 55 counts after Apalachee High shooting

A jury convicted his father, Colin Gray, on charges including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter

By Kate Brumback