A teen accused of finishing up a lethal capturing at a Georgia highschool debuted a drastically completely different look throughout his court docket listening to on Tuesday, based on pictures.
A handcuffed Colt Grey, now 15, arrived in court docket wearing a preppy outfit that includes 1 / 4 zip, collared shirt, khakis and glasses, with a lower and coiffed, slicked-back darkish brown hairdo.
The newborn-faced suspect, who’s accused of taking 4 harmless lives, was practically unrecognizable from his earlier look, through which he donned raveled, bleached orangey locks that fell slightly below his shoulders.
Legal professional Aisha Broderick, who had been appointed to characterize Grey in October, informed the courtroom that they’re nonetheless ready for a medical analysis of Grey to be accomplished, which can assist decide the extra motions the protection recordsdata and can information the path of the case, CBS Atlanta reported.
The analysis is scheduled to be accomplished by the tip of February, based on the outlet.
In Might, Grey’s earlier protection lawyer, Alfonso D. Kraft, signaled to Barrow County Superior Courtroom Decide Nick Primm that the teenager was transferring towards pleading responsible after a go to with a psychologist.
“We ought to be good to go,” Kraft stated on the listening to.
It’s unclear why Grey modified attorneys.
Grey has been charged as an grownup for the Sept. 4, 2024, capturing at Apalachee Excessive Faculty that killed two lecturers and two college students.
Educators Richard “Ricky” Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, and college students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, each 14, had been killed within the capturing.
One other trainer and eight extra college students had been wounded — seven of them hit by gunfire.
Grey, then 14, was indicted on a complete of 55 counts, together with homicide within the deaths of 4 individuals and 25 counts of aggravated assault.
Grand jurors additionally formally charged his father, Colin Grey, for allegedly giving his troubled son an AR-15-style rifle for Christmas — the weapon that Colt ended up utilizing to hold out the terrifying slaughter.
The dad was hit with 29 counts, together with two counts of second-degree homicide and two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Each father and son additionally face a number of counts of cruelty to youngsters.
Charles Polhamus, the 14-year-old alleged gunman’s maternal grandfather, informed The Submit on the time that his former son-in-law, Colin Grey, ought to bear a lot of the blame for the massacre.
“Spending 11 years with that son of a bitch screaming and hollering day-after-day — it could possibly have an effect on anyone,” Polhamus, 81, stated of his 54-year-old ex-son-in-law, who was married to his daughter Marcee.
“He’s evil,” Polhamus stated of the older Grey.
“They couldn’t, they didn’t survive in it,” he stated of the household.
Colin Grey faces as much as 180 years behind bars if convicted of the heinous crime, and Colt Grey faces as much as life in jail. As a juvenile, he can’t be sentenced to demise.
Investigators have testified that Colt Grey carried a semiautomatic assault-style rifle given to him by his father onto the college bus with the barrel wrapped in a poster board.
He allegedly left his second-period class and emerged from a rest room with the rifle, capturing individuals in a classroom and hallway on the 1,900-student faculty.
The deranged alleged shooter additionally created a “shrine” to highschool shooters above his house laptop, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Agent Kelsey Ward stated in court docket.
Colt Grey will return to court docket on March 18.
