Ryan Grantham, a former “Riverdale” star has been arrested and charged with murdering his mother.
It is also alleged that he plotted to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau in March 2020.
Grantham, who played Jeffery Augustine in the hit CW series, admitted to shooting 64-year-old Barbara Waite in the back of the head in March 2020. She was playing piano inside their British Columbia home at the time.
Grantham pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge in March, downgraded from the initial charge of first-degree murder.
The story is that Grantham knew he was going to kill Trudeau and did not want her to be around to witness the fallout.
“Mr. Grantham was seeking to save his mother from something he was going to do,” Crown prosecutor Michaela Donnelly told the court. “That is something different than altruism.”
Prosecutors say that after he shot his mother, covered it with a sheet and positioned a set of rosaries and candles by the piano. He then tried out a molotov cocktail before he hit the road to try and track down Trudeau.
