Tonight a clear message is being sent to parents all across this country.

If you supply your child with a gun and that child uses it to shoot up a school for God's sakes, prosecutors will go after you.

We saw it once in Michigan with the parents of Ethan Crumbly, both of whom were convicted. It was considered rare then... of Georgia. Officials have now charged the father of the 14 year old who shot his school and killing classmates and teachers outside of Atlanta just over 24 hours ago.

Police say the teen admitted to killing two students and two teachers.

The gun he used, but police say that it was an AR-15 style rifle.

And here is the stunning part that leads to the dad's arrest.

Police say the father, Colin Gray, gifted, gifted that weapon to his son.

He is charged with the following, four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of

second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children.

Mr. Gray, these charges stem from Mr. Gray knowingly allowing his son

Colt to possess a weapon.

Now the son has been charged with four counts of felony murder which could mean a life sentence.

But the father, as you just heard, has been charged with 14 charges coming from knowingly

allowing his son to possess the weapons.

I want to break these charges down for you.

First, I'll start with the four counts of involuntary manslaughter, one for each of the four victims that were killed.

One of the ways to prove this kind of charge is to show that someone was killed while they were doing something illegal, the shooter that is, or the person who was responsible for the shooting.

Now the likely illegal act was allowing a minor to own a gun in violation of Georgia law.

And you don't have to actually prove that you intended

for the person to die, but each count could be as much as 10 years.

He also faces two counts of second-degree murder,

and those two counts are tied specifically to the

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