The prosecutor who made history arguing the first case against the parents of a child charged with a mass shooting has given a word of advice to the Georgia high school shooting’s prosecutor.

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald tried the case of the Oxford High School shooter, Ethan Robert Crumbley, in 2021. Crumbley’s parents had given him the gun he would later use to kill four students and injure seven others in November of that year, including a teacher.

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The Oxford High School shooting echoes the Apalachee High School shooting which occurred on Wednesday. 14-year-old alleged shooter Colt Gray’s father, Colin, had given his son the rifle he used to kill four people and injure nine more.

McDonald successfully convicted Jennifer and James Crumbley, Ethan’s parents, in connection with the Oxford High School shooting.

“It’s not easy to obtain a conviction on [this set of] facts,” said McDonald to FOX 2 Detroit. “It’s a gross negligence standard for involuntary manslaughter in Michigan, and it shouldn’t be easy. It should be rare – very rare.”

The prosecutor also stated that not everyone agrees that parents should be held accountable for their children’s actions in court.

“It’s not lost on me that there was not a wave of support or acceptance of the charges when they were announced,” McDonald said to FOX 2 Detroit. 

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“But I knew looking at all the evidence that we had, that is not released to the public, I knew that you don’t get to walk away from that sort of egregious behavior when it was reasonably foreseeable that your kid was going to hurt himself or somebody else.”

McDonald’s main advice to the prosecutors involved in the Apalachee shooting trials against Colt and Colin Gray is to “do the right thing and have courage.”

Colin Gray, 54, the father of Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, 14, enters the Barrow County courthouse for his first appearance, on Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga.  (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Of the four who died in Wednesday’s shooting, two were students and two were teachers at Apalachee High School.

Colt Gray is being tried as an adult on four charges of felony murder. 54-year-old father Colin Gray has been charged on four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children.

Georgia is one of 42 states, including Washington, D.C., which hold parents responsible for the criminal actions of their children.

The office of Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

STATHAM, Ga – The former neighbors of the suspected Georgia high school shooter shared a glimpse into the family’s chaotic home.

Fox News Digital spoke with the neighbors of 14-year-old Colt Gray in Statham, Georgia, a small town of approximately 2,000 residents, where the family of the suspected shooter lived until they sold the home in Sep. 2019.

The current owners of Gray’s former home, who spoke with Fox News Digital anonymously, said that the home on nearly 8 acres of land was in disarray when they bought it in 2019.

Fox News Digital on Saturday sought comment from the public defenders representing Colt Gray and Colin Gray.

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The current neighbor said that Marcee Gray warned his family and their realtors of Colin’s volatile mood the day of the move.

“The day we were closing on the house, I was standing with my wife and our relator, and Marcee came up to us and told us to not make eye contact with Colin, they called him Coly,” the neighbor said. “Mauree said that he was in a mood, and she didn’t know what he would do.” 

“But when he came in, he was as high as can be,” he said. “Red, glassy eyes. He didn’t bother anyone, but didn’t really interact either.”

The neighbor said that during the move in process the kids, including Colt, “were left on their own.”

“There was not much supervision,” he said.

The childhood home of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect had a picture of Colt Gray’s height through the years. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

The neighbor showed Fox News Digital where the Gray family measured the growth of Colt prior to the parents’f tumultuous divorce.

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The growth chart showed Colt Gray’s progress through the years, with the family taking notes in 2017-2019.

Colt Grey’s former residence in Statham, Georgia. Saturday, September 7, 2024 (Ben Hendren for Fox News Digital) (Ben Hendren for Fox News Digital)

Other neighbors corroborated stories of Colin Gray’s volatile mood, with one elderly neighbor sharing a heartbreaking story of her brief interaction with Marcee Gray.

“It was during the day, but I was home by myself and I saw her [Marcee] running up our driveway,” the elderly neighbor recounted. “And she had a child in her hands, and she ran towards our barn in the back and tried to get in. And all of a sudden, I see her husband, in a truck, driving on up and start running towards our barn building.”

“Marcee tried to get into the barn building, but it was locked, and when I saw him [Colin] running towards her, I came outside and yelled, ‘What is going on here?’ and he looked up and turned around and left real fast.”

“When she left the building, I told her, ‘I’m here if you need me,’” the neighbor said. “And she thanked me and I never saw her again.”

The next day, the elderly neighbor was greeted by an unexpected note on her front door.

“It read, ‘Thank you. You saved my life.’” she said. “And it was signed, Marcee.”

Colt Gray, charged as an adult with four counts of murder,  leaves the the Barrow County courthouse after his first appearance for the Wednesday shooting at Apalachee High School, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga.   (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool)

Another neighbor shared that Colt was an unusually “bright and witty” child.

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“We gave Colt and his sibling, there was only two at the time, a ride on our horse,” the neighbor said. “He was 7 or maybe 8 at the time. And really smart and witty. Really cute kids.”

Following the selling of the Statham, Georgia home, the Gray family appeared to spiral, with the parent’s subsequent divorce separating the three children. Colt went to live with his father, while the two younger siblings initially lived with their mother. 

Following the divorce, Colin and Colt Gray rented two homes in Jefferson, Georgia until their move to Winder, Georgia. The Winder, Georgia rental was where Colt and Colin were living at the time of the heartbreaking Apalachee High School shooting.

Four people were killed and nine were injured during the shooting on Wednesday, Sept. 4. The two students killed in the shooting were identified as Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Math teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie were also killed, officials say.

Timeline of Mass Shooting

The shooting was first reported at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The sheriff’s office received an alert of reports of an active shooter at 10:20 a.m.

GBI director Chris Hosey said law enforcement was at the scene “within minutes.”

“Law enforcement had a very, very swift response to this incident,” Hosey previously said.

The 14-year-old is being tried as an adult and is being charged with four counts of murder. He is accused of using a semiautomatic AR-style rifle to carry out the shooting.

His father, Colin Gray, faces related charges in the latest attempt by prosecutors to hold parents responsible for their children’s actions in school shootings.

“You don’t have to have been physically injured in this to be a victim,” District Attorney Brad Smith told reporters on Friday. “Everyone in this community is a victim. Every child in that school was a victim.”

Police are searching the woods near Interstate 75 just north of London, Kentucky, after “numerous persons” were shot on the highway around 6 p.m. near exit 49, officials confirmed Saturday evening. 

Joseph A. Couch, 32, a person of interest in the shooting, is considered armed and dangerous, police said. 

“If you have any information regarding the whereabouts or location on this individual please contact the London-Laurel County 911 Center by calling 911 or 606-878-7000,” the London Police Department said. 

The department warned that Couch shouldn’t be approached. He is described as a White man about 5 foot 10 inches, weighing around 154 pounds. 

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London Mayor Randall Weddle in an update said he had been told that seven people were injured in the shooting, but not all of them were shot.

“Some of them was due to an accident,” he said, adding that no deaths have been reported. 

The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said the highway was closed near the exit, which is nine miles north of London.

Police had originally responded to reports that a suspect was shooting at drivers from an overpass or a wooded area, multiple media accounts said. 

Officials told people to avoid the area.  (Laurel County Sheriff’s Office)

London, around 80 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky, has a population of about 7,600. 

Police officers will be escorting ambulances in and out of the area to take shooting victims to hospitals, FOX 56 reported, adding that a police helicopter is available. 

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told people to avoid the area. 

The highway is closed between several exits.  (WDKY)

“Kentucky, we are aware of a shooting on I-75 in Laurel County,” Beshear said. “Law enforcement has shut the interstate down in both directions at exit 49. Please avoid the area. We will provide more details once they are available.”

The governor said he was receiving updates from the Kentucky State Police and the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security. “[T]ogether we are actively monitoring the situation and offering support in any way possible. Please pray for everyone involved,” he wrote. 

The highway was closed between exits 41 and 59, FOX 56 reported, citing the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. 

Weddle added that all first responders at the scene are safe and that both Gov. Beshear’s office and the White House had reached out to offer support. 

“Just keep our first responders in your prayers,” he said. 

“That is some rugged terrain and a lot of treeline,” the mayor added of the search for the suspect. 

He said that residents should be “vigilant” while police search for Couch. “I’m not asking anybody to panic, there is no immediate danger here in the city, but again…we are asking everybody to be safe.” 

London, Kentucky, has a population of about 7,600.  (Fox News)

Of the response from agencies in surrounding communities, he said “this goes back to showing you what a great, great state that we live in, what a great community we live in and all the residents that’s asked ‘What can we do?’”