2026年7月30日 18:03 UTC 1小时前更新 / 路透社
54岁的科林·格雷是阿巴拉契高中枪手、14岁的科尔特·格雷的父亲。科尔特·格雷作为成年人被指控四项谋杀罪，受害者分别为14岁的梅森·舍默霍恩和克里斯蒂安·安古洛、39岁的理查德·阿斯平沃尔以及53岁的克里斯蒂娜·伊利米。图为科林·格雷在美国温德市巴罗县法院出席首次庭审的画面，拍摄于9月……阅读更多
7月30日（路透社）——向有精神问题的儿子提供其作案所用步枪，导致佐治亚州一所高中四人死亡的男子周四被判15年监禁。这是该州首例父母因子女实施大规模枪击案而被判二级谋杀罪的案件。
16岁的科尔特·格雷于周二被巴罗县高等法院法官判处终身监禁且不得假释，因其在2024年制造校园枪击案。两天后，同一名法官对其55岁的父亲科林·格雷作出判决，刑期远低于检方要求的80年。
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法官尼古拉斯·普里姆指出，科林·格雷所涉罪名均未强制规定监禁刑罚，同时承认其过失行为造成了“难以估量的心痛”。
“此次损失极其惨重，”普里姆在枪击案遇害者多名亲属含泪作证后说道，“但我仍需将你的行为与科尔特·格雷的恶毒心态及其所作所为区分开来。”
科林·格雷是最新一位因子女实施大规模枪击案而被起诉的美国父母——这是检察官为应对美国校园枪支暴力泛滥而采用的新兴法律策略。
在科尔特·格雷制造枪击案数月前，密歇根州一名青少年枪杀四名同学的案件中，其父母因未妥善保管家中枪支且无视儿子精神异常的迹象被判定过失杀人罪，随后被判10至15年监禁。
陪审团认定珍妮弗和詹姆斯·克拉布利夫妇有罪。
科林·格雷的辩护律师周四敦促法官判处其当事人10年监禁外加10年缓刑，辩称克拉布利夫妇提前获得了更多关于儿子精神问题的预警，并指出格雷是该州首位因子女实施大规模枪击案而被指控的父母。
“我们恳请法院不要让佐治亚州成为此类首例案件中，在被告预警更少、付出更多努力的情况下，成为全国异类的地方，”霍布斯说道。
巴罗县地区检察官布拉德·史密斯驳斥了科林·格雷对儿子暴力计划知之甚少的说法，向法官展示了一间卧室墙壁的复制品——科尔特曾在上面为2018年佛罗里达州帕克兰高中大规模枪击案的枪手设立纪念 shrine。
这种危险“每天都摆在他眼前”，史密斯告诉法官。
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Father of Georgia school shooter sentenced to 15 years in prison
July 30, 2026 6:03 PM UTC Updated 1 hour ago / Reuters
Colin Gray, 54, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, 14, who is charged as an adult with four counts of murder in the deaths of Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance, in Winder, U.S., September… Read more
July 30 (Reuters) – A man who gave his troubled son the rifle he used to kill four people at a Georgia high school was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison, the culmination of the state’s first case in which a parent was convicted of second-degree murder for a mass shooting committed by his child.
Colt Gray, 16, was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday for the 2024 school shooting by a Barrow County Superior Court judge. Two days later, the same judge sentenced his 55-year-old father, Colin Gray, to far less than the 80 years prosecutors had requested.
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Judge Nicholas Primm noted that none of the charges underlying Colin Gray’s conviction entailed mandatory prison time while acknowledging the “immeasurable heartache” his negligence had caused.
“The loss here is profound,” Primm said, following tearful testimony by several relatives of those killed in the shooting. “But I still have to distinguish your acts from the malignant heart and the acts that Colt Gray committed.”
Colin Gray is the latest U.S. parent to be prosecuted for a mass shooting committed by a child — an emerging legal strategy employed by prosecutors in a bid to tackle the epidemic of gun violence in U.S. schools.
Months before Colt Gray’s shooting, the parents of a Michigan teenager who shot and killed four classmates were sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison after being convicted for manslaughter.
In that case, a jury found Jennifer and James Crumbley guilty of not securing guns in their home and of ignoring signs that their son was mentally disturbed.
Colin Gray’s defense attorney on Thursday urged the judge to give his client a sentence of 10 years in prison and 10 years in probation, arguing the Michigan parents had more advance notice of their son’s problems and noting that Gray was the first parent in the state to be charged for a child’s mass shooting.
“We would ask the court not to make Georgia the national outlier in this first case of its kind, against a defendant whose warnings came with less and whose efforts were more,” Hobbs said.
Barrow County District Attorney Brad Smith rejected Hobbs’s claim that Colin Gray had little warning of his son’s violent plans, showing the judge a replica of a bedroom wall on which Colt had created a shrine to the gunman behind the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
The risk was “staring him in the face every day,” Smith told the judge.
Reporting by Julia Harte
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