Former Riverdale actor Ryan Grantham has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his mother and conspiring to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
24-year-old man pleads guilty after shooting against her mother, in the back of the head while she was playing the piano at home in Squamish, north of Vancouver, Canada. According to the authorities, Ryan Grantham filmed the murder with a Go-Pro camera. The crime happened in March 2020.
The day after the incident, according to the Canadian press, he covered his mother’s body with a sheet, lit candles around it and got into a car with various weapons and ammunition in order to drive to the Canadian capital and kill the Canadian prime minister. Minister Justin Trudeau.
On Canadian radio CBCthe young man still drove several kilometers before abandoning the plan.
He told police that he planned to carry out a mass attack on the Lions Gate Bridge or on Simon Frase University in Canada, where he studied. He eventually went to the police station to confess to the crime: “I killed my mother,” he said.
In the months leading up to the crime, he smoked marijuana for hours and watched violent videos on television. dark webas reported at the time of the announcement of the verdict, which sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the first 14 years of his sentence.
The judge who presided over the trial considered Grantham “lucky” that he had the acumen not to carry out the massacre, and praised the fact that he now feels “true remorse” for the crime he committed.
He began his career at the age of nine and has appeared on the TV series Riverdale and Supernatural.