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Colin Gray requests new trial after conviction for giving son gun used in Apalachee shooting

Gray was sentenced to 15 years in prison for second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the September 2024 attack

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Colin Gray, father of the Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, enters the courtroom during his sentencing hearing at Barrow County Superior Court on Thursday, July 30, 2026, in Winder, Ga. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

What this story says

  • Colin Gray was sentenced to 15 years in prison for giving his son the gun used in the September 4, 2024 Apalachee High School shooting, which killed two students and two teachers.
  • Gray filed a court motion on Wednesday requesting a new trial, arguing the jury’s verdict was not supported by the evidence.
  • The left-rated outlets led on the new trial request, while the centre-rated digest mentioned it without additional detail.
  • No right-rated outlet reported on the motion or the original conviction.

Who covered it

Left 88%(7)Centre 12%(1)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 8 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

66/100

Craft

67/100

Hype

15/100

8 sources · methodology

Thin on the right so far

None of the 8 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.

Colin Gray, the father of the teenager who carried out the September 4, 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia, has asked a court for a new trial. Gray was convicted in March of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for giving his son the semiautomatic rifle used in the attack. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The shooting killed two 14-year-old students, Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and two teachers, Richard Aspinwall and Cristina Irimie. Gray’s son, Colt Gray, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors said Colin Gray gave his son the rifle as a Christmas gift, along with ammunition and other accessories.

In a court filing on Wednesday, Gray’s attorneys argued the jury’s guilty verdict was not supported by the evidence and was “contrary to law and the principles of justice and equity.” The motion does not specify which parts of the evidence or legal arguments the defence disputes.

What the coverage left out

No right-rated outlet ran the story at all. None of the digests, including the centre-rated one, mentioned the specific legal grounds Gray’s attorneys cited for the new trial request beyond the general claim that the verdict was unsupported. The Associated Press report was the only one to include the detail that the rifle was given as a Christmas gift.

Tags:#USCrime#SchoolShooting#GunViolence#LegalAppeal#ParentalLiability

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 4 times, most recently on 7 Aug 2026, 22:45, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

7 rated outlets

  • All six left-rated digests led on Colin Gray’s request for a new trial. The Associated Press, whose full report was published by several outlets, included the defence’s argument that the verdict was unsupported by evidence and contrary to legal principles. The digests also carried the length of Gray’s sentence, the charges he faced, and the names of the victims.
  • The Associated Press report described Gray as one of a “handful of American parents” criminally charged after their children were accused in shootings. It quoted the defence’s motion directly: “contrary to law and the principles of justice and equity.” The report also noted the rifle was given as a Christmas gift, a detail the digests did not include.

Centre

1 rated outlet

  • The centre-rated digest from CBS News mentioned Gray’s request for a new trial but did not include additional details about the legal arguments or the evidence presented at trial. It named Gray and identified him as the father of the shooter, but did not list the victims or the charges he faced.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Read it at the source

8 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

7

Centre

1

Right

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Not rated

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

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