A new trial date has been set for the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect after defense attorneys asked for a delay earlier this year.
Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm issued an order Wednesday to set Colin Gray’s trial for Feb. 6. The trial had been slated to start Monday.
The scheduling update came the day before the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting , which killed four people and injured nine others.
Gray’s trial was delayed in July because his attorneys both had trials scheduled to start this month in Fulton County. In Georgia, older cases take precedence over newer cases, particularly when a trial date has been set.
Primm had tried to reach out to both of those Fulton judges to strike an agreement about trial scheduling but sai