WINDER, Ga.—The father of a teenager accused of a deadly high school shooting in Georgia was aware that his son was obsessed with school shooters and even had a shrine above his home computer for the gunman in the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida, prosecutors said at a Wednesday court hearing.
Colin Gray had also given his son, Colt, the assault-style weapon used in the shooting that killed four people at Apalachee High School as a Christmas gift and was aware that his son’s mental health had deteriorated in the weeks before the shooting, investigators testified.
Colt Gray, 14, charged with four counts of murder, is accused of using the gun to kill two fellow students and two teachers on Sept. 4 at the high school in Winder, outside Atlanta. Because he’s a juvenile, the maximum penalty he would face is life without parole….