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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jeff Martin

A Christmas rifle, possible warning signs and 41 seconds of gunfire: jurors weigh Colin Gray's fate

Georgia High School Shooting - (Copyright 2026 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The Georgia father of an accused school shooter could have prevented an attack that left two students and two teachers dead and many others wounded at a school northeast of Atlanta in 2024, a prosecutor said in her closing argument.

“After seeing sign after sign of his son’s deteriorating mental state, his violence, his school shooter obsession, the defendant had sufficient warning that his son was a bomb just waiting to go off," Barrow County Assistant District Attorney Patricia Brooks told jurors. "And instead of disarming him, he gave him the detonator.”

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