Georgia school shooter Colt Gray is on trial on murder charges, while his father Colin is also arrested for the high school massacre

Georgia school shooter Colt Gray appeared in court for the first time on Friday, one day after his father was also arrested for allowing his son to possess a gun.

The 14-year-old is accused of killing two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Winder, outside Atlanta, with a semi-automatic assault rifle on Wednesday.

His father, Colin, is due to appear in the same courtroom shortly after his son. He is charged with four counts of manslaughter, two counts of voluntary manslaughter and eight counts of child abuse.

The teenager appeared in person in handcuffs at Barrow County Superior Court, wearing a green T-shirt and gray sweatpants. He was handcuffed across his body and looked down throughout the hearing, with his hair obscuring his face.

He spoke quietly only to Judge Mingledorff, and when asked to confirm his name, he replied, “Yes, sir,” and said he could read and write and had the right to an attorney.

Georgia school shooter Colt Gray appeared in court for the first time on Friday. The teenager looked down during the hearing and his hair covered his face

Gray was arrested Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder, just minutes after authorities say he opened fire on students and teachers, killing four. Colt reportedly told police, “It was me,” when he was read his Miranda rights

During the Grays' first appearances, dozens of emotionally shaken family members crowded into the courtroom, some of them visibly crying before the hearing even began.

Some wore sunglasses to hide their faces and were assisted by detectives in the courtroom.

The teenager is represented by Zain Harman and has been warned that the charges could carry the death penalty.

Previously, during the shooting spree, which authorities say he had been planning for years, he immediately turned himself in to police officers who confronted him.

The family members of father and son did not appear to offer any support in the courtroom.

As Gray entered the courtroom, he looked down at his feet and stared directly at the judge as he spoke during the brief eight-minute hearing.

His father will receive different legal representation than his son following his arrest on Thursday afternoon.

His father, 54-year-old Colin Gray, is accused of buying his 14-year-old son Colt the AR-15 rifle the boy used and was arrested Thursday on multiple counts of first-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty to children.

The teen's father, Colin Gray, 54, was charged Thursday in connection with the shooting, including manslaughter and first-degree murder, according to Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

“His charges are directly related to his son's actions and allowing him to possess a gun,” Hosey said. Colin Gray's first court date has not yet been set.

Gray was arrested Wednesday, minutes after authorities said he opened fire on students and teachers, killing four. Colt reportedly told police, “It was me,” as he was read his Miranda rights.

According to public records, Gray's mother, Marcee Gray, has a criminal record dating back to 2007, was imprisoned as recently as April, and has not been allowed to have any contact with her father, Colin, without third-party mediation.

Marcee, 43, has previous convictions in four Georgia counties, including drug charges, domestic violence and property damage, as well as civil fraud charges.

The family's home was searched Wednesday afternoon, and FBI investigators seized firearms and evidence.

Marcee, 43, has a criminal record in four Georgia counties, including drug abuse, domestic violence and property damage, as well as civil fraud charges.

Neighbors saw Colin return to the family home on Wednesday evening, but it is unclear whether he turned himself in to authorities.

A neighbor told DailyMail.com they were “horrified” by the new charges, adding that in the two years they had lived on the property, the family had “kept to themselves” and failed to integrate into the community.

A sheriff's report obtained Thursday shows the teenager denied threatening to carry out a school shooting last year when authorities questioned him about a threatening social media post.

Due to conflicting evidence about the origin of the post, investigators were unable to arrest anyone, the report said. Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum said she reviewed the May 2023 report and found nothing that would have warranted charges at the time.

Teacher Richard Aspinwall was named as one of the four victims of the shooting. Christina Irimie was also identified as a victim

Mason Schermerhorn, 14, an autistic student at Apalachee High School, was the first victim to be identified. Christian Angulo, 14, also lost his life in the senseless shooting

The teen was questioned after the sheriff received a tip from the FBI that Gray, then 13, “had possibly threatened to shoot up a middle school tomorrow.” The threat was made on Discord, a social media platform popular among video gamers, according to the sheriff's office incident report.

The FBI's tip pointed to a Discord account linked to an email address associated with Colt Gray, the report said. But the boy said “he would never say something like that, not even in jest,” the investigator's report said.

In the transcript of the interview, the teenager is quoted as saying, “I promise I would never say anything where…”, with the rest of this denial reported as inaudible.

The investigator wrote that no arrests were made because of “inconsistent information” about the Discord account. The account contained profile information in Russian and a digital trail of evidence indicated that the account had been accessed in various cities in the US state of Georgia as well as in Buffalo, New York.

Jackson County Sheriff Janis Mangum said she reviewed the May 2023 report and found nothing that would have warranted charges at that time.

“We didn't screw anything up here,” Mangum said in an interview with the Associated Press. “We did everything we could with what we had at the time.”

The Discord account's username was written in Russian, and the translation of the letters yielded the name “Lanza,” which refers to Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, officials said.

Gray denied being the author of the threats and told police he closed his Discord after it was repeatedly hacked, expressing fear that someone might make these allegations against him.

“He knows the danger of guns and what they can do and how to use them and not use them,” said the father, Colin Gray, according to a transcript obtained by the sheriff's office.

Sheriff's investigators closed the case after failing to prove Gray was connected to the Discord account or seeking the necessary court order to seize the family's guns, according to police reports released Thursday by the sheriff's office.

The boy was reportedly obsessed with other notorious school shooters, such as the murderer Nikolas Cruz of Parkland, Florida.