A 24-year-old Canadian actor Ryan Grantham has pleaded guilty to murdering his late mother, Barbara Waite, in an incident which occurred in the year 2020.
Ryan pled guilty to the second-degree murder charge before the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday, September 23.
A report by the BBC reveals that Ryan who played Jeffery Augustine in the popular teen drama Riverdale, will be eligible to apply for parole after 14 -years.
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According to prosecutors, ‘‘on March 31, 2020, Grantham shot his mother, Barbara Waite, in the back of the head as she played piano in their Squamish townhouse.
‘‘He planned the killing in advance and rehearsed his actions beforehand, considering the murder for about 15 minutes.
‘‘Grantham also filmed a four-minute video on a GoPro camera in which he confessed to the crime saying: “I shot her in the back of the head. In the moments after, she would have known it was me,” prosecutors added.
