ATLANTA — A grand jury indicted a 14-year-old alleged shooter and his father who bought him the gun on Oct 17 in the September slaying of two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school, affirming initial charges brought by prosecutors and adding numerous other criminal counts.

The Barrow County grand jury indicted Colt Gray on a total of 55 counts, including four counts of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, plus aggravated assault and cruelty to children.

Grand jurors indicted his father, Colin Gray, 54, with 29 criminal counts, including second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and adding reckless conduct to prosecutors' initial charges.

In bringing second-degree murder charges against the father of the accused gunman, prosecutors are using an emerging legal approach that was successful once before in the United States as the country grapples with school shootings.

The Sept 4 shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, a city of 18,000 some 80km north-east of Atlanta also wounded nine people.

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