The father of the Apalachee school shooting suspect may be facing a jury of peers much closer to home than he’d expected when a judge granted a bid for new venue for his upcoming trial.

The trial of Colin Gray will already be something of a novelty, as it’s just the second time parents of an alleged school shooter have been prosecuted on charges related to their child’s actions.

Barrow County Judge Nicholas Primm agreed to the change of venue requested by both prosecutors and Gray, but the court’s decision on what that would look like didn’t match either legal camp’s request.

The judge decided to import a jury — that is, bring in a jury from outside Barrow County rather than move the entire trial to another locale — but the surprise, legal experts told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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