COLT GRAY, 14, MOTHER WARNS SCHOOL AFTER TEXT FROM SON: 13 SHOT, DAD CONVICTED
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The father of the teen boy responsible for a mass shooting at a Winder, Georgia high school is being held accountable for his son Colt Gray's actions.
Colin Gray convicted of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, cruelty to children, and reckless conduct after less than two hours of deliberation.
The FBI first investigated Colt Gray in May 2023 after receiving a tip about a school shooting threat via Discord, a gaming chat platform.
Colin Gray told investigators he had been teaching his son about "firearms and safety" and how to hunt. He stated that if his son had made any threats, he "would be mad as hell and then all the guns would be taken away."
Colt denied making threats. After the investigation, Colin Gray purchased his son an AR-15-style rifle as a gift. Colin Gray will be sentenced in July facing up to 180 years in prison.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Sonya Turner - Mom of two Apalachee High School students
- Chris Hubbard - Father of school age children.
- Brian Claypool - Trial Attorney, Instagram: brian.claypool.
- Dr. Jillian Peterson – Forensic Psychologist & Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Hamline University (St. Paul, MN); Expert on Mass Shootings and Violence Prevention; Author: “The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic”
- Chris Grollneck (Dallas, TX) Active Shooter Expert, Managing Principal for Active Shooter Prevention Project (ASPP) LLC., Author: "Qucik Series- Law Enforcement Guide to Responding to Active Shooters;" IG & TikTok: @aspp_pro, YouTube: @cgrollnek
- Chase McGee - Senior Newsroom Producer, Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Marylynn Ryan - VP of News, Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Sydney Sumner - CrimeOnline Investigative Reporter
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.6 | A Georgia dad sits emotionless in court when a jury says, |
| 0:16.9 | you're guilty of 29 counts after his son, Colt Gray, allegedly murders four people in a deadly high school shooting. |
| 0:30.4 | But how was the father found guilty? |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. A Georgia dad, guilty on 29 counts after his son reportedly murders four people in a high school shooting. The dad, Colin Gray, 54, sat emotionless as his fate was announced in court. |
| 0:57.5 | The jury taking less than two hours to decide he was responsible for a fatal rampage at |
| 1:04.5 | Appalachy High. The son, Colt Gray, 14, charged with carrying out the massacre with an AR-15, given to him as a Christmas |
| 1:16.8 | gift by his dad. |
| 1:20.1 | The son, Colt, awaiting trial, reportedly opening fire inside the school killing two students, |
| 1:28.1 | Mason-Shermerhorn just 14, Christian Angulo, also 14. |
| 1:34.5 | Also dead two teachers, Richard Aspenwall and Christina Irmy. |
| 1:40.9 | Nine others were injured. |
| 1:43.9 | What happened that deadly morning? Did his mother actually warn the school |
| 1:50.0 | of an extreme emergency after she gets a chilling text from her son? 13 shot and in a bizarre twist, almost unheard of in our American jurisprudence, |
| 2:06.6 | his father is also arrested. I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. |
| 2:15.1 | Wednesday morning, Appalachie High School in Winder, Georgia. |
| 2:20.3 | 14-year-old Colt Gray steps out of his algebra classroom. |
| 2:25.3 | Moments later, chaos unfolds as gunshots ring out. |
| 2:31.3 | Every parent in America's head is spinning. How did he get in school with a gun? Why was he let |
| 2:39.7 | out of class to wander the halls unshaperoned? And did the school know ahead of time that he was an |
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