Father sentenced to 15 years
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Father sentenced to 15 years for son’s school shooting killings

The father of a boy who shot and killed four people at his school has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter.

The boy, who was 14 at the time, shot two students and two teachers at his school outside Atlanta, Georgia, in 2024. He was arrested immediately after the crime and was sentenced to life in prison earlier this week.

The father had given his son a gun as a Christmas present, even though, according to prosecutors, he had received “several warnings that (his son) could harm others.” The son was obsessed with school shootings and reportedly had an altar in his room dedicated to the boy who shot and killed 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.

The father was convicted this spring of two counts of manslaughter and two counts of manslaughter, in the killings of the students and teachers, respectively, and was sentenced on Thursday.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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