Georgia high school shooter appears in court

A father and his 14-year-old son both appeared in court Friday morning on charges related to the deadly school shooting that left a small north Georgia community grieving the loss of two students and two teachers this week, court officials say.

Colt Gray, a student at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, is charged with four counts of felony murder after investigators say he fired an AR-style rifle on campus on Wednesday morning, killing four people, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Nine others were injured, all but two of whom were shot, the GBI said.

“A young person brought a gun into a school and committed an evil act and he took lives and he injured many other people — not only physically but mentally,” Barrow County Sheriff Jud Smith said at a news conference Thursday night.