The father of a kid charged in the Georgia school attack has been arrested, corresponding to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Colin Gray, 54, was apprehended for involvement with the fatal shooting at Apalachee High School. Colin is the father of Colt Gray, 14, who is suspected of shooting to death two students and two teachers at the secondary school on Wednesday utilizing an assault-style rifle.

During the news conference, Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith stated that a young kid carried a pistol into a school, conducted an awful deed, killed people, and damaged them not only physically but also emotionally.

At least nine additional individuals were brought to hospitals with injuries, including seven pupils and two instructors, and all are expected to recover well, Smith added.

Colin Gray is being incarcerated in the Barrow County Detention Center.

More than a year ago, Georgia police interrogated the suspected shooter after receiving information about internet statements threatening a school shooting. In accordance to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, authorities did not have sufficient probable motive for charging him at that moment.

During the 2023 investigation, the father indicated that he kept hunting firearms in his residence but that his child did not have unfettered access to them, and the son denied making explicit threats on the web, reported by the FBI.

The incident, which murdered two instructors and two 14-year-old students, was carried out using an “AR platform-style weapon,” or semi-automatic rifle.

It was unknown how the gunman got the firearm.

The younger Gray was arrested immediately after the incident and is being detained without bond at the Gainesville Regional Youth Detention Center, according to Glenn Allen, the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice’s Communications Director.

While parents are seldom held legally accountable if their child shoots someone, recent high-profile instances indicate that they may face prosecution in the future. Deja Taylor of Virginia was sentenced to 21 months in prison in November 2023 for two federal crimes stemming from her six-year-old son’s January shooting of his teacher.

The senior Gray’s arrest arrives months after the extraordinary indictment of both parents of a Michigan high school student who killed and wounded four of his peers on November 30th. Jennifer Crumbley was convicted in February on four counts of involuntary manslaughter. The following month, her partner, James Crumbley,  received the verdict of the same charges. The couple were condemned to at least ten years in jail.