The court heard he was procrastinating in his studies at Simon Fraser University and had not been acting in a while, and he'd rationalized his actions because he didn't want his mother to see what he perceived as his failings. His lawyer, Chris Johnson, QC, argued Grantham's depressive disorder, cannabis use and isolation all contributed to his actions. But from every fibre of my being, I am sorry," Grantham said.ĭuring his sentencing hearing, a forensic psychologist hired by the defence was quoted as saying that Grantham's mental state at the time was "far from normal," describing it as unstable, chaotic, ambivalent and fragile. "In the face of something so horrible, saying sorry almost seems pointless.
His family sat in the front row and was overcome with emotion as he apologized. He then lit some candles, hung rosaries over the piano and said a few prayers before leaving their home with a plan for more bloodshed, the court heard. "She did nothing to deserve what I did to her." "My mother was a caring, compassionate, loving person," Grantham said in B.C. The court heard Barbara Waite, 64, was playing piano in their Squamish, B.C., townhome when her son fired one fatal bullet. Grantham, 24, told the court he thought about shooting and killing his mother for days leading up to her death on March 31, 2020.
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Ryan Grantham, whose acting credits include a role on the Archie-Comics-inspired Netflix series "Riverdale," was in court Wednesday for a sentencing hearing after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. A young actor from British Columbia who contemplated killing the prime minister and fatally shot his own mother told a Vancouver court room the woman did nothing to deserve what happened.
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