RYAN GRANTHAM, A 24-YEAR-OLD CANADIAN ACTOR, WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR MURDERING HIS MOTHER

Ryan Grantham, a well-known Canadian actor, was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of his mother, Barbara Waite, in 2020.

On Wednesday, September 23, the 24-year-old actor who played Jeffery Augustine in the teen drama Riverdale was sentenced at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada.

Grantham pled guilty to second-degree murder and will be eligible for parole after 14 years, according to the BBC.

According to prosecutors, Harris shot his mother, Barbara Waite, in the back of the head on March 31, 2020, while she was playing the piano in their Squamish townhouse. He planned the murder in advance and practiced his actions for about 15 minutes before carrying it out.

Grantham also recorded a four-minute video on a GoPro camera confessing to the crime, saying: "I shot her in the back of the head. In the moments after, she would have known it was me."

He packed a car with three guns, ammunition, and 12 Molotov cocktails he had made, as well as camping supplies and directions to Mr Trudeau's Rideau Cottage residence, after drinking beer and smoking marijuana for hours following the murder.

He drove about 200 kilometers east to Hope, then turned around and drove to a Vancouver police station, where he told an officer, "I killed my mother."

Grantham also considered committing an act of mass violence at Vancouver's Lions Gate Bridge or at Simon Fraser University, where he was a student, before turning his car around and surrendering.