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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Georgia Arrests the Apalachee School Shooter's Father

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Colt Gray, the 14-year-old who killed four people this week, is facing life in prison. His father, Colin Gray, could get 180 years for knowingly letting his son possess the gun. Could holding parents responsible in this way help prevent such shootings from happening? Plus, Hunter Biden pleads guilty to federal tax charges, avoiding an embarrassing trial, but is a pardon coming from Joe Biden? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal,

0:20.0

this is Potomac Watch.

0:23.0

After a 14-year-old gunman opens fire at a high school outside Atlanta, Georgia, killing

0:29.7

four and injuring nine, officials arrest him as well as his father for having

0:34.6

knowingly provided access to the weapon. Plus Hunter Biden pleads guilty in

0:40.1

federal court to charges that he failed to pay about 1.4 million dollars in taxes, but not without

0:46.8

the first son trying to avoid accountability one last time.

0:51.1

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:55.1

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassal and Bill McGurn.

1:01.0

Appelatchi High School in Georgia was the site of the latest grim tragic

1:05.7

heartbreaking mass shooting in the United States just to provide some of the

1:10.5

background going by the CNN timeline. It says that at about 945 on Wednesday,

1:17.6

Colt Gray left his algebra 1 classroom. Then he returned with a gun but was unable to get into the classroom

1:24.4

because the door was shut. So then he went to the classroom next door and

1:28.0

opened fire. Says the sheriff's office was notified at around 1020, arrived shortly thereafter, confronted

1:36.6

the shooter who surrendered to the deputy, and was taken into custody.

1:41.1

Interesting though now is the swift charging of his father as well.

1:46.0

Let's start with a clip of an official, this is the director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation

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announcing those charges in a news conference.

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