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Apalachee High School shooting suspect set to change plea, court documents show
CBS News • • general
Key Points:
- Colt Gray, accused of fatally shooting two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia in 2024, is scheduled for a "non-negotiated" plea hearing on July 24, where he will change his plea.
- Gray, charged as an adult with 55 counts including malice murder and aggravated assault, faces up to 180 years in prison; he had previously pleaded not guilty but was negotiating a plea deal.
- At the time of the shooting, Gray was 14 and has been held in a juvenile detention center since his arrest.
- Gray's father, Colin Gray, was convicted of second-degree murder for providing the rifle used in the shooting and ignoring prior violent behavior by his son, marking a rare instance of a parent being charged in connection with their child's mass shooting.
- During the attack, Gray brought a semiautomatic rifle onto a school bus concealed in a book bag, left a classroom to retrieve it from a bathroom, and used a detailed notebook with instructions and a classroom diagram to carry out the shooting.
