I'm Emily Campanio, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

Tuesday morning, in a Barrow County courtroom, a jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict against Colin Gray.

The 55-year-old father of the accused Appalachie High School shooter has been convicted on all 27 counts he faced, including two counts of second-degree murder.

A Hallmark case in the state of Georgia,

broadening criminal liability beyond the shooter themselves to include the parents.

The prosecution pointed to the AR-15-style rifle Colin

bought his son for Christmas given just months

after the FBI warned the family

about the teenager' online threats.

We heard emotional, gut-wrenching testimony from surviving students, teachers,

and even Colin's own estranged wife and daughter

who painted a picture of a household filled with red flags.

Colin Gray took the stand himself in a Hail Mary attempt

to convince jurors he was just a struggling single dad trying to bond with a troubled son.

The jury, deliberating for less than two hours, did not buy it.

Joining me now to break down this landmark verdict and what it means for the future of parental responsibility is criminal defense attorney and legal analyst Joshua Ritter.

All right. So Josh, the jury came back in under two hours. And this is, was technically a complex

case, right? There was 27 felony count. So what does that speed tell you about how they viewed

Colin Gray's defense? Yeah, that's a very quick verdict.

Even without the complex issues,

attendant to this case,

that just involving as many charges as they were looking at,

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