Georgia school shooting suspect's dad asks for protection after 'incalculable number of threats' in jail

The man whose teen son is accused of killing four people at a Georgia high school asked a judge on Wednesday for protection from fellow inmates due to the “incalculable number of threats” he faces behind bars.

Colin Gray is being held without bail after he was arrested and booked on suspicion of second-degree murder and manslaughter, for allegedly allowing his son, Colt Gray, access to the weapon used in last week's bloodshed at Apalachee High School.

Gray needs to be separated from other inmates being held by the Barrow County Sheriff's Office, his lawyers Jimmy Berry and Brian Hobbs wrote.

Massive news coverage and social media discussion of the case has led to an "incalculable number of threats against the Defendant" by inmates "calling for both harm and violence to befall the Defendant, and in some cases, even calling for the death of the Defendant," according to the attorneys.

Last week's shooting has impacted almost everyone in the city of Winder and greater Barrow County, defense lawyers said.

“It is certain that those feelings of anger and retribution manifested in the collective psyche, of both the public and the community at large, are not also represented in the individuals currently incarcerated with the Defendant at the Barrow County Detention Center,” Gray's attorneys wrote in a motion filed in Barrow County Superior Court on Wednesday.

“In fact, so many lives in the community of Barrow County have been touched in unfathomable ways, it would be reckless to assume there are NO inmates, either currently or in the near future, being housed in the Barrow County Detention, who wish to harm the Defendant."

A representative for the Barrow County Sheriff's Office could not be immediately reached for comment on Thursday.