USA – The 14-year-old charged with killing two fellow students and two teachers at his Georgia high school made his first court appearance on Friday – with his father, who was arrested late on Thursday, set to appear shortly afterwards.

Colt Gray appeared in person, dressed in green prison scrubs and hands and ankles shackled to his waist at the hearing in Barrow county courthouse, having previously been understood to be planning to attend by video link. He traveled from the youth detention facility in which he is being held. He is being detained there as a juvenile, even though he is expected to be tried as an adult.

The suspect has been charged with four counts of felony murder after he was arrested on Wednesday after a gun rampage at Apalachee high school in Winder, outside Atlanta. Four people were fatally shot – students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and mathematics teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Cristina Irimie, 53. A further nine people were injured, of whom seven were understood to have suffered gunshot wounds. The younger Gray did not enter a plea on Friday, but answered yes when the judge asked him if he could read and write, and he was accompanied by a lawyer. (The Guardian)…[+]