Colin Gray Trial: FBI Warnings, an Alleged Parkland Shrine, and 29 Felony Counts
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
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Summary
Prosecutors say Colin Gray was warned by the FBI, by law enforcement, and by child welfare that his son was a potential threat — and his response was allegedly to buy the kid an AR-15 for Christmas. Now he's facing 29 felony counts including second-degree murder. Former prosecutor Eric Faddis dismantles the case piece by piece.
The alleged warning signs prosecutors presented span years. An alleged 2021 search for "how to kill your dad" on a school computer. FBI involvement over school shooting threats in 2023, according to prosecutors. Then, according to the state, the Christmas gift of a SIG Sauer M400 seven months later. By August 2024, Colt allegedly texted his father that "the blood is on your hands" and asked him to buy ammunition.
The defense argues Colt hid his plans. But prosecutors allege the bedroom shrine to the Parkland shooter, the reported voices, the alleged violent episode with his mother, and Colin's own alleged words when officers arrived — "I knew it" — tell a different story. Faddis explains why the Georgia legal framework charging cruelty to children as the basis for second-degree murder may be even more effective than the Crumbley manslaughter model, and he gives his honest assessment of Colin Gray's chances with roughly 20 juvenile victims testifying about being shot.
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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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