Jesse Osborne, the teenager responsible for a shooting at a South Carolina elementary school in 2016, was sentenced to life in prison.
CommentNikie Mayo, The Greenville NewsNovember 15, 2019GREENVILLE, S.C. – On a day another deadly shooting took place at a school across the country,
Osborne pleaded guilty in December to killing his father and Jacob, and to attempted murder related to trying to kill other students and a teacher on the playground. This week's hearing was mandated by state law because of his age at the time of the crimes. The judge considered the circumstances of the crimes, Osborne's maturity level, his home and family life, and whether it is believed he can be rehabilitated.
His father owned a chicken farm, but he was having financial trouble and had borrowed money from his family. Jeffrey Osborne had a temper, and especially when he drank, he became dark and threatening, according to testimony from his family and a psychiatrist who saw Jesse after the shooting. "He would make him pull his pants down... get sticks, belts, whatever he could find, and just start whaling on Jesse," Brock said."I could hear the screams throughout the house."
Prosecutors described him as the boy who planned the Townville school shooting for days and maybe weeks. The boy who videoed himself combing his hair just before the shooting and saying that he needed to"look fabulous" because of what he was about to do. The boy who hoped to kill dozens more than he did, according to messages attributed to him.
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