The prosecutor of the first parents charged in their son's school shooting advises the Georgia DA to have courage.

The Oxford High School shooting echoes the Apalachee High School shooting which occurred on Wednesday. 14-year-old alleged shooter Colt Gray's father, Colin, had given his son the rifle he used to kill four people and injure nine more.

"Obtaining a conviction on these facts is not easy," said McDonald to FOX 2 Detroit. "It's a gross negligence standard for involuntary manslaughter in Michigan, and it should be rare - very rare." The prosecutor also stated that not everyone agrees that parents should be held accountable for their children's actions in court. "It's not lost on me that there was not a wave of support or acceptance of the charges when they were announced," McDonald said to FOX 2 Detroit. "But I knew looking at all the evidence that we had, that is not released to the public, I knew that you don't get to walk away from that sort of egregious behavior when it was reasonably foreseeable that your kid was going to hurt himself or somebody else." McDonald's main advice to the prosecutors involved in the Apalachee shooting trials against Colt and Colin Gray is to "do the right thing and have courage."

In Wednesday's shooting, two students and two teachers from Apalachee High School were among the four who died. Colt Gray is being tried as an adult on four charges of felony murder. Colin Gray, a 54-year-old father, has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children. Georgia is one of 42 states, including Washington, D.C., that hold parents responsible for the criminal actions of their children. The office of Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald did not immediately respond to Planet Chronicle Digital's request for comment.