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Georgia school shooter Colt Gray sought notoriety, investigator says ahead of sentencing

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By Eric Levenson, Sarah Hutter, Andy Rose, Isabel Rosales, Devon M. Sayers, Danya Gainor, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — Colt Gray, the Georgia teen who fatally shot four people at his high school in 2024, carried out the attack “to gain some sort of fame or notoriety from it,” Ashley Gilleland, an inv…

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  1. KTVZ Bend

    Georgia school shooter Colt Gray wanted infamy and school shooter’s attention, messages show (opens KTVZ Bend)

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    CNN, POOL, BARROW COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, FAMILY PHOTOS, APALACHEE HIGH SCHOOL By Eric Levenson, Isabel Rosales, Sarah Hutter, Andy Rose, Devon M. Sayers, Alaa Elassar, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — Colt Gray, the teenager who killed four people at his Georgia high school in September 2024, wrote in …

  2. KION Central Coast

    Judge expected to sentence Georgia school shooter Colt Gray Tuesday after hearing reveals clues about possible motive (opens KION Central Coast)

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    By Danya Gainor, CNN (CNN) — Colt Gray, the Georgia teen who fatally shot four people at his high school in 2024, returns to court Tuesday and will have a final chance to speak publicly before he is sentenced to life in prison.

  3. KESQ Palm Springs

    Georgia school shooter Colt Gray sought notoriety, investigator says ahead of sentencing (opens KESQ Palm Springs)

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    By Eric Levenson, Sarah Hutter, Andy Rose, Isabel Rosales, Devon M. Sayers, Danya Gainor, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — Colt Gray, the Georgia teen who fatally shot four people at his high school in 2024, carried out the attack “to gain some sort of fame or notoriety from it,” Ashley Gilleland, an inv…

  4. Court TV

    School shooter told his mother in jail call, ‘I’m in the big leagues, bro’ (opens Court TV)

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    WINDER, Ga. (Court TV) — A teenager who killed four people in a mass shooting at his Georgia high school will never have the chance for release from prison, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Colt Gray, 16, sat stoically as Judge Nicholas Primm handed down the sentence after a hearing spanning three days.

  5. KION Central Coast

    Looking a school shooter in the eyes: How teenage victims confronted Colt Gray in court (opens KION Central Coast)

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    By Andy Rose, CNN Winder, Georgia (CNN) — Dark clouds hung over the Barrow County Judicial Courthouse, both outside and inside, as more than 100 people sloshed through a soggy parking lot to hear Colt Gray take responsibility for the lives he had taken, along with the ones that he forever changed.

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