Colin Gray Faces 180 Years — And the Alleged Evidence Trail Is Devastating
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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Summary
Colin Gray is on trial for second-degree murder because prosecutors say he armed a child he allegedly knew was dangerous. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis breaks down the state's case against the father of the Apalachee High School shooter — and explains why the defense may be fighting an unwinnable battle.
The prosecution's timeline spans years of alleged warning signs. An alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad." An FBI visit in 2023 over school shooting threats, with investigators reportedly instructing Colin to restrict gun access. A Christmas gift of an AR-15-style rifle seven months after that visit, according to prosecutors. And in August 2024, Colt allegedly texted his father, "Whenever something happens, just know the blood is on your hands," and asked him to buy 150 rounds of ammunition.
The defense claims Colt led a double life. But prosecutors allege the evidence was inside the home — a reported shrine to the Parkland shooter, reported voices, alleged violence toward his mother, and prescription medication without medical oversight. When officers arrived at the Gray home, Colin allegedly said two words the prosecution may never let the jury forget: "I knew it."
With 29 felony counts, up to 180 years exposure, roughly 20 juvenile victims testifying about being shot, and a legal theory that goes beyond what convicted the Crumbleys, Faddis gives his honest take on where this is headed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Bruske, Stacey Cole, and Todd Michaels. |
| 0:09.1 | Let's go on to another case that is making a lot of headlines. |
| 0:14.0 | Colin Gray is now sitting in a Georgia courtroom facing 29 counts, including second-degree murder because prosecutors say he handed his |
| 0:22.8 | mentally deteriorating 14-year-old son an AR-style rifle as a Christmas present. After what the |
| 0:29.7 | state describes as a year's-long parade of warning signs, he allegedly refused to act on. You know, |
| 0:35.2 | like making collages on your wall of other school shooters. |
| 0:38.3 | You know, like one may have posters up of, I don't know, this age, here's how bad I am. |
| 0:45.9 | Oh, here comes an 80s reference, everybody. |
| 0:48.3 | I know what we back in our, back in the day would be like for people would be everything from like Britney Spears to back street boys to NSYN to Destiny's Child. |
| 0:59.2 | That would be, you know, the 90. |
| 1:00.4 | I don't know what it would be today. |
| 1:01.5 | Whoever, whatever, whatever that would be. |
| 1:03.8 | Nobody in their right mind was putting up tributes to school shooters unless you saw fewer a school shooter. |
| 1:12.3 | This is the second major trial in the U.S. testing whether parents can be held criminally |
| 1:18.6 | responsible when their children carry out school shootings and the prosecution's case against |
| 1:23.5 | Colin Gray may be even more damning than what we saw with the Crumblies in Michigan. |
| 1:28.4 | Former prosecutor Eric Fattis is here to a breakdown every element of the state's case, |
| 1:32.7 | dismantle the defense's strategy, and explain why the evidence trail that Colin Gray allegedly left behind |
| 1:38.6 | could actually bury him. Eric, prosecutors have opened by saying this isn't about holding parents accountable for what their kids do. |
| 1:47.0 | It's about what Colin Gray specifically did. It's not an across-the-board damnation for every parent that |
| 1:54.0 | discovers they have a monster child that did something. The state alleges he was warned by the FBI, |
| 2:00.2 | by law enforcement, by child welfare |
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