Apalachee shooter Colt Gray pleads guilty to all 55 charges, faces life without parole

In a Georgia courtroom, a sixteen-year-old boy named Colt Gray stood before a judge and admitted to fifty-five counts of violence — including the murders of two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School — without negotiation or condition. The September 2024 attack, once claimed to be impulsive, was revealed through notebooks and cellphone evidence to have been carefully, coldly planned. As communities reckon with grief that does not fade, the case now turns toward sentencing — and toward a father whose gift of a rifle to a troubled child has made him a landmark figure in the evolving