Overview
- Deliberations began Monday after closing arguments, with a unanimous verdict required and no set time limit.
- Prosecutors said Gray ignored clear warnings and enabled the attack by gifting an AR-15-style rifle and leaving firearms and ammunition unsecured.
- The defense argued the shooting was not foreseeable, emphasizing Gray’s testimony that he bought the rifle to bond over hunting and believed his son was not a threat.
- Jurors saw surveillance video showing the rifle concealed in a backpack, body‑camera footage from an earlier law enforcement visit, and testimony about a bedroom shrine to the Parkland gunman and the mother’s pleas to lock up guns.
- Gray faces 29 counts including second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, exposure that could mean decades in prison, in a closely watched case drawing comparisons to the Michigan Crumbley convictions.