A Georgia father is the first in the country to be found guilty of murder in connection with a school shooting that his son is accused of carrying out — an unprecedented verdict not entirely surprising to legal observers.
Baylor University School of Law Professor Dyllan Taxman said that when he heard about Colin Gray’s indictment after the Apalachee High School shooting in 2024, he almost immediately thought “that there was a pretty strong chance that he was going to be convicted of a homicide offense.”
At the time, he had just started doing some research for his article, titled “Killing Through Their Kids,” thinking that the case of James and Jennifer Crumbley was an oddity. The parents were the first in the country to be convicted of involuntary manslaughter for ignoring red flags about their son’s mental state and providing him access to the firearm used in the 2021 deadly shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan.
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