Georgia high school shooting suspect looks dramatically different in court

Accused Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray appeared successful tribunal connected Tuesday looking astir unrecognizable from his infamous booking photo.

In his mugshot, then-14-year-old Gray had shoulder-length dyed blond hair, but the now-15-year-old had a much clean-cut look successful tribunal connected Tuesday. He had slicked-back acheronian hairsbreadth and wore glasses, a collared shirt, a quarter-zip and khakis.

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Colt Gray, the Apalachee High School shooting suspect, walks into the courtroom of Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm for a proceeding successful Winder, Ga., connected Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.  (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool)

Attorney Aisha Broderick, who was appointed to correspond Gray successful October, reportedly told the justice that a aesculapian valuation of Gray was inactive not complete, according to CBS News. She said the assessment, which is expected to beryllium finished by the extremity of February, would assistance usher the defense. CBS News added that Gray's adjacent proceeding is scheduled for March 18, 2026.

Gray is accused of carrying retired a shooting astatine Georgia's Apalachee High School connected Sept. 4, 2024, successful which helium allegedly killed 4 radical and wounded 9 others. The teachers killed were Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53, and students were Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, some 14.

From near to right: Math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were killed astatine Apalachee High School successful Winder, Georgia, on with Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, some 14, officials say. (Fox News)

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In October 2024, Gray was indicted connected 55 transgression offenses, including 4 counts of felony execution successful the shooting. His father, Colin Gray, was besides indicted for 29 counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct.

The older Gray faces up to 180 years successful situation if convicted, portion his lad could get up to beingness successful prison, according to The New York Post, which noted that Colt, who is simply a minor, is not eligible for the decease penalty.

The suspected shooter was identified arsenic 14-year-old Colt Gray, a student. (The Barrow County Sheriff's Office)

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In 2023, anterior to the shooting, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office visited the Gray household aggregate times and had flagged the younger Gray arsenic a idiosyncratic of involvement starring up to the shooting aft a May 2023 study of an online menace to sprout up a mediate schoolhouse that helium attended. Police investigated the menace and spoke with the begetter and lad connected May 21, 2023, astatine their home.

Fox News Digital's Peter D'Abrosca and Stepheny Price contributed to this report.