- Ryan Grantham, the former Riverdale actor was recently sentenced to life in prison in Canada, with the possibility of release in 14 years.
- Wimpy Kid actor shot his mother in the back of the head while she practiced the piano.
- He told authorities that his original aim was to assassinate Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
Ryan Grantham is now imprisoned. Following his guilty plea to murdering his mother, Barbara Waite, 64, in 2020, the former Riverdale actor was recently sentenced to life in prison in Canada, with the possibility of release in 14 years.
On March 31, 2020, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid actor shot his mother in the back of the head while she practiced the piano.
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The incident occurred in Squamish, British Columbia, at the family’s home.
He told authorities that his original aim was to assassinate Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
He later changed his intentions and decided to carry out a mass shooting,
most likely at Simon Fraser University, where he had previously studied.
Ryan Grantham, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid actor, has been sentenced to life
in jail for the shooting death of his mother.
He shot her in the back of the head while she was playing the piano on March 31, 2020.
Grantham’s lawyer, Chris Johnson of the Vancouver law firm Johnson Doyle Nelson & Anderson,
alleged that instead of following out either plan, Grantham surrendered to police on April 1, 2020.
He went to police in Vancouver and told an officer, “I killed my mother.”
According to the lawyer, the Supernatural actor also justified killing his mother
so that she would not have to face the consequences of his premeditated actions.
What is Ryan Grantham’s next step? His lawyer discloses their strategy.
Grantham was sentenced on September 21, 2022, after pleading guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder.
His principal attorney, Johnson, told E! News exclusively that,
while the case is “completed now that the sentence has been determined,” they still have a request.
“The lawyers plan to file a request to the director of prisons requesting
them to consider sending Ryan to a medium security institution instead
than a maximum security facility,” Johnson said in a statement on September 27.
According to Johnson, if the actor is forced to serve his sentence in a maximum-security facility,
he may be brutalized or worse. According to TMZ, Johnson is concerned that
his client will be “physically, psychologically, and sexually intimidated” if he is imprisoned in a high-security institution.
Talia Armstrong, a junior defense attorney on Grantham’s team,
told E! News that Grantham is relieved that his sentence has been handed down,
even if it is unclear whose facility he will be placed in.
Ryan Grantham, a teenage Canadian actor who featured on “Riverdale,”
was sentenced to life in prison after admitting to murdering his mother
and that he wanted to murder Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and carry out a mass massacre.
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Grantham was also sentenced to a lifelong ban on handguns on September 20.
According to a statement obtained by E! News on September 22 from BC Prosecution Services,
both a life sentence and a gun prohibition are necessary for British Columbia for second-degree murder.
Armstrong also stated that he had accepted whatever penalty the court deemed appropriate the entire time.
She stated that, while he obviously valued the ability to petition for parole after 14 years,
he was willing to accept the maximum of 25 years before doing so.
“He’s doing a lot of writing, he’s reading a lot, and he just wants to get past
this dark moment in his life and into something more constructive,”
Armstrong said, adding that Grantham “just wants to move on” from the crime he did following his sentence.
