New Delhi, July 29 -- Colt Gray, a 16-year-old who carried out a mass shooting in September 2024 at the Apalachee High School in the US state of Georgia, was sentenced on Tuesday (local time) to life without parole.

The teenager, who pleaded guilty to carrying out the attack was charged as an adult. He was 14-years-old when Gray committed the mass shooting in which he killed two 14-year-olds as well as two teachers of the school, besides wounding nine other people.

Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm, who announced the punishment, told Gray in the courtroom, "You were failed by each of your parents. You were failed by your extended family," adding, "That failure does not absolve you from who you chose to idolize, worship, and become," a...