Georgia school shooter handed victims’ families ‘life sentence of trauma’, court hears

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The wife of a teacher killed in a high school shooting in Georgia two years ago told a court on Friday that the families of the four victims had been handed “a life sentence of grief and trauma” by the teenage student who murdered them. Shayna Aspinwall, whose husband Richard died at Apalachee high school, about 45 miles north-east Atlanta, on 4 September 2024, was speaking at the sentencing hearing for Colt Gray, 16, who earlier pleaded to 55 charges, including second-degree murder. Gray admitted during a state court hearing in Barrow county superior court in Winder, Georgia, that he carried out the attack, his “non-negotiated” plea deal with prosecutors…

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