Colin Gray Murder Trial: What the Prosecution's Timeline Reveals
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The trial of Colin Gray is underway in Barrow County, Georgia — and the prosecution's opening statement laid out a timeline that may be the most detailed case for parental accountability ever presented in an American courtroom. Gray faces 29 felony counts, including second-degree murder, in connection with the September 4, 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School that killed four people and wounded nine others. Prosecutors allege he gave his son Colt Gray the AR-style rifle used in the attack as a Christmas gift — months after FBI-flagged threats were traced to their home and deputies warned him to keep his son away from firearms.
The evidence prosecutors have outlined includes a 2021 internet search by Colt for "how to kill your dad," a shrine to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz found in the teenager's bedroom, a counseling request where Colin described his son as volatile, reports that Colt told his father he was hearing voices days before the attack, and a text from Colt to Colin that allegedly read: "Whenever something happens, just know the blood is on your hands." When law enforcement arrived at Colin's home after the shooting, he reportedly said "I knew it" before anyone told him what had happened.
The defense argues Colin was a struggling single father whose son deliberately concealed his plans. They've told jurors a mental health appointment was scheduled for the day after the shooting. The prosecution counters that this isn't about prediction — it's about a father who was warned repeatedly and allegedly kept an assault rifle in his son's bedroom anyway. This trial builds on the Crumbley precedent but with significantly more severe charges. If convicted on all counts, Colin Gray faces up to 180 years in prison. We break down the full case and what it means for the future of parental accountability in school shootings.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.2 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:07.3 | When Colin Gray was at home on September 4th of 2024 and law enforcement showed up, |
| 0:14.6 | he was already standing in the garage. |
| 0:16.9 | His daughter had just texted him from her middle school, and it was on lockdown. |
| 0:22.2 | Without being asked a single question, without anyone saying a word about what had happened, |
| 0:26.9 | Colin Gray reportedly blurted out, I knew it! |
| 0:31.3 | My little girl just texted me. She's in middle school. |
| 0:33.8 | She said, we're in lockdown. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm like, God Almighty, please tell me your brother |
| 0:38.4 | didn't do something. I knew it. Not what happened. Not it's, is everyone okay? Not there must be |
| 0:46.5 | some mistake. I knew it. It's not a father in shock. It's a father who already had done the math. |
| 0:53.3 | Actually put some of the numbers |
| 0:54.9 | on the equation and chose to do nothing about it. And now Colin Gray is sitting in a courtroom |
| 0:59.8 | in Barrow County, Georgia facing 29 felony counts, including two counts of second degree |
| 1:04.2 | murder because prosecutors say he didn't just fail to act. They say he armed his son, |
| 1:09.6 | ignored every warning the universe threw at him, |
| 1:12.6 | and created the conditions for the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history. |
| 1:16.6 | Four people dead. Two of them were 14-year-olds. Two of them were teachers. |
| 1:22.6 | Nine others are wounded, and the man who allegedly put the weapon in the shooter's hands |
| 1:26.6 | is now staring up to |
| 1:29.0 | 180 years in prison and with any luck a sharp broomstick okay i added that in but you know |
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