Apalachee Excessive Faculty capturing suspect Colt Grey appeared in Barrow County Superior Court docket on Friday following this week’s mass capturing.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation stated that Grey had been “charged with 4 counts of felony murder in connection to the shooting” at Apalachee Excessive Faculty in Barrow County — however the decide says he is not going to face the dying penalty.
“I want to make you aware that the maximum penalty for felony murder. So for each count, the maximum penalty is that you could be punishable by death, by imprisonment for life without parole or by imprisonment for life, with the possibility of parole,” Decide Currie Mingledorff II initially informed Grey on the listening to.
Nevertheless, the decide shortly walked again that assertion, asserting that the utmost penalty for Grey doesn’t embody the dying penalty.
Mingledorff additionally stated at this level, there isn’t a bond being requested for Grey.
Grey didn’t enter a plea in the course of the look.
An lawyer representing Grey additionally informed the decide “there was a development yesterday afternoon that makes it necessary for our office to have alternate counsel appointed, and arrangements have already been made in that regard.”
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“I’ve already explained that to Mr. Gray. Alternate counsel will be appointed by the end of the day today,” she added.
The suspect’s father, Colin Grey, is about to seem in court docket at 9:30AM.
Colin Grey was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of second-degree homicide, 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to kids, in accordance with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI).
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Whereas investigators offered few particulars in regards to the father’s alleged position within the capturing, they acknowledged that the sheriff’s workplace visited the household house in Jefferson, Georgia, in Might 2023 to answer stories that the then-13-year-old allegedly made threats to shoot up the native public center college on the social media app Discord. Colin Grey stated that his son “had some problems” at his earlier center college however that it had “gotten a lot better” since he modified colleges.
The daddy additionally informed investigators throughout that go to that he had looking rifles in the home, including, “Colt is allowed to use them when supervised but does not have unfettered access to them.” As well as, the teenager denied making mass capturing threats on Discord, saying he “had never made any comments about shooting up a school or heard anyone talking about it.”
