Teen Colt Gray pleads guilty to committing mass shooting at his Georgia high school

A teenage boy accused of finishing up a mass shooting at his Georgia high school pleaded guilty Friday to all 55 counts towards him, together with homicide and aggravated assault.

Colt Gray, 16, agreed to a non-negotiated guilty plea, the decide stated, that means there isn’t a plea deal; the state will current its argument for an acceptable sentence, and the protection will do the identical.

The decide stated the minimal sentence is life with parole and the utmost is a life sentence with out parole.

Gray was 14 years outdated in September 2024 when he opened hearth at Apalachee High School, killing two college students and two lecturers and injuring a number of others.

Breanna Schermerhorn, whose son, Mason Schermerhorn, was killed, stated in a sufferer impression assertion Friday, “Mason was so much more than a victim.”

“Mason was kind, compassionate, funny and fiercely protective of others,” she stated. “As a child with exceptional needs, he understood what it felt like to struggle and be overlooked by others. Instead of becoming bitter, he became an advocate.”

“He made people that were typically unseen feel seen, accepted and safe,” she stated.

“I had little question in my thoughts if Colt had truly attended school as he ought to have, that Mason would have befriended him,” Breanna Schermerhorn stated.

She stated Gray “knew that pulling that set off was fallacious, he knew that each alternative he made that day would eternally alter numerous lives.”

Gray was accused of finishing up the shooting with a rifle his father, Colin Gray, gifted him as a Christmas current, officers stated. This March, Colin Gray was convicted of charges including second-degree murder and manslaughterchanging into the primary mother or father within the US convicted of homicide due to the alleged acts of their baby.

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