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Second-degree cruelty to children (8 counts) On September 4, 2024, a mass shooting occurred at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia, United States. [2] The suspect, 14-year-old Colt Gray, allegedly shot 13 people. Two students and two teachers were killed, while nine others were injured.
Colt AR-15. The Colt AR-15 is a product line of magazine -fed, gas-operated, autoloading rifle manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company ("Colt") in many configurations. [1] The rifle is a derivative of its predecessor, the lightweight ArmaLite AR-15, an automatic rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and other engineers at ArmaLite in 1956.
List of Colt AR-15 and M16 rifle variants. ArmaLite AR-15 with the charging handle located on top of the upper receiver, protected within the carrying handle and a 25-round magazine. 1973 Colt AR-15 SP1 rifle with "slab side" lower receiver (lacking raised boss around magazine release button) and original Colt 20-round magazine.
Both Colt and his father, Colin Gray, face life in prison for the bloodshed — Colin, 54, allegedly gave his son the AR-15-style rifle used in the massacre as a Christmas gift.
Colt Gray, 14, allegedly killed four people in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on Sept. 4, 2024. Barrow County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS
The father of accused Georgia school shooter Colt Gray believed that his 14-year-old son was too gentle, and bought him the AR-15-style rifle in an attempt to “toughen him up,” a relative claims.
An AR-15–style rifle is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle based on or similar to the Colt AR-15 design. The Colt model removed the selective fire feature of its predecessor, the original ArmaLite AR-15, which is a scaled-down derivative of the AR-10 design (by Eugene Stoner). It is closely related to the military M16 rifle.
The ArmaLite AR-15[ note 3 ] is a gas-operated assault rifle manufactured in the United States between 1959 and 1964. [ 10 ] Designed by American gun manufacturer ArmaLite in 1956, it was based on its AR-10 rifle. The ArmaLite AR-15 was designed to be a lightweight rifle and to fire a new high-velocity, lightweight, small-caliber cartridge to ...