Teenager who killed his father and a 6-year-old sentenced to life without parole
A South Carolina teenager who in 2016, at age 14, killed his father before driving to an elementary school and fatally shooting a 6-year-old boy and injuring two other people was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole.
Osborne’s lawyer, Frank L. Eppes, told reporters after the sentencing that the case would be appealed. The prosecutor in the case, David Wagner, said in an interview that prosecutors had sought a sentence of life without parole because “you don’t get much worse than going and shooting elementary school kids on a playground.”The hearings, which were livestreamed by local news outlets, were required by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling intended to prevent juveniles who commit severe crimes from receiving mandatory or arbitrary life sentences without consideration for their circumstances and maturity.
Prosecutors seeking a life sentence for the boy, who turned 14 just days before the killings, presented hundreds of videos and social media messages showing that the shooting was premeditated. In one video showed at the hearing, Osborne combed his hair on the day of the attack, saying you “got to have your hair straight when you’re going to shoot up a place. Got to look fabulous.”
On Thursday, school administrators, a teacher who was shot and relatives of Jacob Hall, described the terror they experienced.
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