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<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2b2325;font-size:14px"><strong>Ex-‘Riverdale’ actor Ryan Grantham murdered mom, wanted to kill Canada PM Justin Trudeau<strong>, prosecutors said at his sentencing hearing on May 9</strong> </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2b2325;font-size:14px"><strong>Ryan Grantham, who played teen Jeffery Augustine on the hit CW show, aces life in prison after he pled guilty to second-degree murder of his mother </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2b2325;font-size:14px"><strong>Grantham, 24, shot Barbara Waite, 64, in the back of the head as she played piano in their British Columbia home on March 31, 2020</strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2b2325;font-size:14px"><strong>Abandoning his mom&#8217;s body in pool of blood, Grantham then packed his car with three guns, ammunition, 12 Molotov cocktails, camping supplies and a sheet with directions to Rideau Cottage where PM Trudeau lives in Ottawa</strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2b2325;font-size:14px"><strong>Grantham confirmed his plan to kill the Liberal Party leader in statements to authorities, same entries in a private journal read in court, the report said. </strong></h1>



<h1 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2b2325;font-size:14px"><strong>But he Grantham drove only a few hours east before turning around with thoughts of killing people on Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge or at the university where he was a student</strong></h1>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ryan-Grantham-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409799"/><figcaption><strong>Canadian actor Ryan Grantham who played the teen character Jeffery Augustine in ‘Riverdale,’ [photo], admitted to shooting his mother n the back of the head. He confessed that he also wanted to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A former “Riverdale” actor who admitted to murdering his mother, confessed that he also wanted to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it was revealed in an in Ottawa court on May 9. <br>Ryan Grantham who played teen Jeffery Augustine on the hit CW show, pled guilty to second-degree murder for shooting his mother, Barbara Waite, in the back of the head as she played piano in their British Columbia home on March 31, 2020. <br>The next day, while her body still lay in the pool of blood, Grantham packed his car with an arsenal of three guns, ammunition, 12 Molotov cocktails, camping supplies. Grabbing a sheet with a printed Google map with directions he headed for Rideau Cottage in Ottawa where Trudeau lives, prosecutors said at his sentencing hearing, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/barbara-waite-ryan-grantham-squamish-bc-homicide-guilty-sentencing-1.6486914" target="_blank">CBC News</a> reports. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Barbara-Waite-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409800"/><figcaption><strong>Grantham admitted to killing his mom, Barbara Waite, [photo], shooting her in the back of the head in March 2020.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Grantham, 24, mentioned his plan to kill the Liberal Party leader in statements to authorities and from a private journal read in court, the report said.<br>But he drove only a few hours east before turning around with thoughts of killing people on Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge or at the university where he was a student.<br>He ultimately drove to Vancouver police headquarters instead, approached an officer in a police car and said, “I killed my mother.” <br>Besides his supporting role in “Riversdale,” a show based off the “Archie” comic book series, Grantham also appeared in TV’s “Supernatural” and the movie “Dairy of a Wimpy Kid.”</p>


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<figure class="alignleft size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ryan-Grantham-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409803"/><figcaption><strong>Former ‘Riverdale’ actor Ryan Grantham was convicted for killing his mother and stockpiling weapons to kill Canadian PM Justin Trudeau</strong></figcaption></figure>
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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In Riverdale, the character played by Grantham is actually responsible for killing Archie’s father in a hit and run driving accident, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://riverdale.fandom.com/wiki/Jeffery_Augustine" target="_blank">according to an Archie fandom page.</a> <br>In the months leading up to his mother’s slaying, the court heard Grantham felt hopeless and had a desire to commit violence, according to CBC. He even contemplated suicide with feelings of anger and anxiousness over perceived failures. <br>He did a walk-through of the crime by secretly approaching his mother with a gun on one occasion; a Go-Pro camera caught at least one of his rehearsals, CBC News reported. <br>More footage shows his mother’s dead body with him saying, “I shot her in the back of the head. In the moments after, she would have known it was me.” <br>In his March 31 journal entry he wrote, “I’m so sorry mom, I’m so sorry Lisa … I hate myself.” <br>After the shooting, he went out to get money, weed and beer and then experimented making Molotov Cocktails and watched Netflix before covering his mom’s body in a sheet and going to bed, according to his statement to police.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Justin-Trudeau-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-409804" width="840" height="587"/><figcaption><strong> Ryan Grantham admitted he intended on killing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau [photo], at his home.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Before he left the British Columbia townhouse the next day, Grantham hung a rosary on the piano and arranged lit candles around his mother’s body. <br>Waite’s body was found later that day by her daughter Lisa Grantham after her mother didn’t return texts and phone calls.<br>“How can I trust anybody when my only sibling chose to execute my mom when her back was turned,” she said during the hearing. <br>Grantham who pled guilty to the murder on March 9 in BC Supreme Court, faces life in prison. at sentencing.</p>

Canadian actor Ryan Grantham who shot his own mother in the back of the head and confessed desire to kill PM Justin Trudeau, faces life in prison
