As the prosecutors have shown in court, Grantham recorded a GoPro video shortly after the murder in which he confesses to the crime and shows his mother’s body. In the clip, he admitted: “I shot her in the back of the head. In the moments after that, she would have known it was me.”
The next day Grantham covered his mother’s body with a sheet, surrounded it with lighted candles, and hung a rosary on the piano; he then loaded his car with guns, ammunition, and Molotov cocktails, before driving east to Ottawa’s Rideau Cottage to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Instead, he only reached Hope, BC, before turning with a new intention to commit a mass shooting at Simon Fraser University, where he was enrolled, or at the Lions Gate Bridge. He eventually drove himself to the Vancouver Police Department and turned himself in.
Judge sentences Ryan Grantham to life
The iZombie The actor’s sister made a victim statement that talked about the “life-wrenching” effects of the crime on the rest of the Grantham family, which influenced the court’s sentencing decision. Justice Kathleen Ker called the case heartbreaking, tragic and life-destroying when she handed him the verdict. In her reasons, Ker summarized how Grantham was on a downward spiral before the murder, spending more and more time watching violent videos on the dark web while feeling consumed by suicidal and homicidal tendencies.
Under the terms of Grantham’s sentence, he is ineligible for parole during the first 14 years of prison.