Georgia high school shooting suspect Colt Gray has requested a jury trial after pleading not guilty to killing four people in last month’s massacre.
The 14-year-old waived an arraignment scheduled for Nov. 21, Fox News reported.
Gray is accused of the murders of two fellow students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, outside Atlanta.
Last week, a Barrow County grand jury indicted Gray as an adult on a total of 55 counts, including the murder of four people and 25 counts of aggravated assault.
Grand jurors also indicted her father, Colin Gray, on 29 counts, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Both also face multiple charges of cruelty to children.
Georgia high school shooting suspect Colt Gray has requested a jury trial after pleading not guilty to killing four people in last month’s massacre.
The grand jury also indicted her father, Colin Gray, on 29 counts, including two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Because Gray is a minor, the maximum sentence he would face is life in prison without parole.
Teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, were killed in the mass shooting, as were students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14 years old.
Colin Gray has not yet entered a plea. He is accused of committing cruelty to children by giving his son access to a gun and ammunition “after receiving sufficient warning that Colt Gray would harm and endanger the physical safety of another person,” the indictment states.
Professor Richard Aspinwall was named as one of the four victims of the shooting. Christina Irimie was also identified as a victim
Mason Schermerhorn, 14, an autistic student at Apalachee High School, was the first victim identified. Christian Angulo, 14, also lost his life in the senseless shooting
Second-degree murder is an unusual charge under Georgia law, resulting from the death of a child when someone commits the crime of cruelty to children.
Police say the elder Gray was aware that his son was obsessed with school shooters and even had a shrine above his home computer to the gunman in the 2018 massacre in Parkland, Florida.
Colin Gray had also given his son, Colt, the assault weapon used in the shooting as a Christmas gift and was aware that his son’s mental health had deteriorated in the weeks before the shooting, investigators testified.
Investigators have said the teenager carefully planned the shooting at the 1,900-student high school northeast of Atlanta.
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified that the boy left a notebook in his classroom with handwritten step-by-step instructions for preparing for the assault.
It included a diagram of his second period class and his estimate that it could kill up to 26 people and injure up to 13 more.
“I would be surprised to get that far,” the boy wrote.
Since he is a minor, the maximum sentence he would face is life in prison without parole.