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. 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. “But I still have to distinguish your acts from the malignant heart and the acts that Colt Gray committed.” 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.