Ryan Grantham, 24, shot his own mother in the head
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Ryan Grantham, the actor best known for his roles in Riverdale and Supernatural, murdered his own mother and plotted to kill her. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canadain 2020. The actor pleaded guilty during an impeachment hearing Monday (13) in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada.
The automatic penalty for the crime is life imprisonment. Prosecutors are asking for a minimum sentence of 17 to 18 years without parole, the CBC reported.
Ryan even rehearsed how he would commit the crime. On March 31, 2020, he murdered his mother, 64yearold Barbara Waite, by shooting her in the head while she was playing the piano. Hours after the fact, he recorded another video in which he showed his mother’s body and admitted the authorship.
The actor said he decided to kill his mother to save her from seeing the violence he wanted to commit. The next day, Ryan packed up some belongings, as well as guns, ammunition and explosives, and headed to Ottawa to assassinate Canada’s prime minister. He changed his mind halfway and went to a police station, where he turned himself in.