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Former Riverdale American series actor Ryan Grantham was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his mother, who was shot in the head two years ago while playing the piano. The next day he went to the police station, where he confessed to the murder.
Ryan Grantham was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for the murder of his mother. The actor killed the sixty-four-year-old woman on March 31, 2020. He then recorded a video on a GoPro camera in which he confesses to the murder and films her body. “I shot her in the back of the head. If I hadn’t, she would have known I wanted to commit murder,” says the actor’s voice on the tape. He then covered the body with a sheet, placed around it some lighted candles and hung a rosary on the piano.
The next morning he loaded three pistols, ammunition and a dozen Molotov cocktails into the car. According to on the Deadline website he wanted to try to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. However, he changed his mind halfway and headed straight to the police station, where he confessed to his mother’s murder. “I killed my mother,” he would have said at the station at that moment.
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He then testified in court that he allegedly shot his mother to help her. She didn’t want her to know that she was planning to assassinate the Canadian Prime Minister.
The mother’s body was found by her daughter Lisa the next day. “I’m so sorry Mom, I’m so sorry Lisa. I hate myself,” she reads in the recording. On Wednesday, the former actor was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder, he writes web Daily mail.
Under Canadian law, the second degree murder charge carries an automatic life sentence. But on Wednesday, a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruled that the actor will be able to apply for parole after 14 years. According to a psychiatric report, Grantham had been depressed and homicidal for several months prior to the tragedy. His mental health problems are considered a mitigating factor, he says CBC.
Ryan Grantham played the role of Jeffery Augustine in the fourth episode of Riverdale. Although this character appeared briefly on the scene, he played a key role here. It was Jeffery Augustine who killed the character of Fred Andrews, played by Luke Perry known from the Beverly Hills 90210 series. Grantham also appeared in the Ghostbusters or iZombie series and in about twenty films.
In the US, the case where actor Alec Baldwin shot a cameraman has recently been solved (04/2022):
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