The Apalachee High School shooting suspect and his father were both indicted on new charges Thursday following a preliminary hearing in which federal agents provided detailed testimony about the Sept. 4 shooting and the events that followed. led there.

A Barrow County grand jury returned separate indictments for the 14-year-old suspect and his father, Colin Gray, 54, CBS News reports. The new charges against the teen, who will be tried as an adult, include four counts of malice murder, 22 counts of aggravated assault and 18 counts of first-degree cruelty to children. He was charged with 55 counts in total.

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District Attorney Brad Smith said the indictment includes charges related not only to the victims who were killed and injured, but also to those who were in the room the alleged shooter entered and to those in the hallway.

“It’s a whole county that’s been affected by this,” Smith told CBS News. “All of them are victims in some way.”

Mason Schermerhorn, 14, Christian Angulo, 14, Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53 were killed in the shooting. Nine others were injured.

Apalachee shooting suspect’s father bought him tactical vest and ammo

The elder previously told investigators he purchased the gun used in the murders — an AR-15-style weapon — as a Christmas gift for his son in December 2023. Seven months earlier, Gray and his son had been questioned by local law enforcement after the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received multiple anonymous tips that the teen had made threats on the messaging app Discord about the college shooting.

Gray was arrested two days after the shooting and charged with two counts of second-degree murder, the most serious charges ever brought against a parent of an alleged school shooter. He was charged with 29 counts in total, including two counts of involuntary manslaughter, three counts of reckless driving and second-degree cruelty to children.

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Testifying Wednesday, GBI agents said that while they knew of her son’s mental health issues, he also bought her a laser sight, tactical vest and ammunition in the months before the shooting.

Officers also testified that the teenage suspect meticulously planned the shooting in a notebook that included sketches of the school’s hallways and classrooms and an estimate of the death toll. He also reportedly had a shrine in his home dedicated to former school shooters and asked his father to buy him a “shooter’s mask” to “finish his school shooter outfit.”

More details about the shooting were also provided, including how the teen managed to smuggle the rifle into the school by hiding it in a bulletin board.

Ultimately, a magistrate judge ruled that there was sufficient probable cause for Gray to stand trial on the charges against him. Gray and his son are expected to be arraigned on November 21 to plead their respective cases and set trial dates, according to Yahoo News. Smith said he wanted to try the teen and his father separately.

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