{"id":65295,"date":"2026-02-13T18:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/18-year-old-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-fatally-shooting-5-in-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:05:13","slug":"18-year-old-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-fatally-shooting-5-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/18-year-old-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-fatally-shooting-5-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old sentenced to life without parole for fatally shooting 5 in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/raleigh-north-carolina-mass-shooting-austin-david-thompson-guilty\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">18-year-old<\/a><\/span> who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting when he was 15 was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without parole. The judge rejected arguments that Austin David Thompson   deserved the chance for release decades from now.<\/p>\n<p>The October 2022 attack began at Thompson&#8217;s Raleigh home when he shot and repeatedly stabbed his 16-year-old brother, James. Equipped with firearms and wearing camouflage, Thompson then fatally shot four others \u2014 including an off-duty city police officer \u2014 in his neighborhood and along a greenway. He was arrested in a shed after a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson pleaded guilty last month to five counts of first-degree murder and five other counts, fewer than two weeks before his scheduled trial. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson, who did not speak publicly in court, was led away in handcuffs after the sentencing. Family members of the shooting victims cried as the sentence was handed down. Thompson&#8217;s attorneys announced plans to appeal the sentence.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/13\/25e54f95-749c-41cd-9940-573d2e864c35\/thumbnail\/620x413\/9ff95c3cdbd32314f8cb9f62eb423ffb\/ap26021790020420.jpg#\" alt=\"North Carolina Mass Shooting \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/13\/25e54f95-749c-41cd-9940-573d2e864c35\/thumbnail\/620x413\/9ff95c3cdbd32314f8cb9f62eb423ffb\/ap26021790020420.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/02\/13\/25e54f95-749c-41cd-9940-573d2e864c35\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/90053b3f0a632fe2fe58ee35e5e50cc1\/ap26021790020420.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Austin Thompson signs documents pleading guilty to five counts of murder in Wake County Superior Court on Jan. 21, 2026, in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Allen G. Breed\/AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway had the option to sentence him to life in prison with the chance for parole after at least 25 years. Thompson did not face the death penalty, given his age at the time of the crimes. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to conceive of a greater display of malice,&#8221; Ridgeway said after chronicling the events of that day, adding that Thompson&#8217;s months of planning and fantasizing before the rampage confirmed he is the rare juvenile offender &#8220;whose crimes reflect irreparable corruption&#8221; and thus required a life without parole sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/shooting-raleigh-north-carolina-hedingham-several-killed-juvenile-suspect-in-custody\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">said at the time<\/a><\/span> of the attack that &#8220;terror has reached our doorstep.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nightmare of every community has come to Raleigh,&#8221; he said, calling it a &#8220;senseless, horrific and infuriating act of violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the sentencing hearing that began last week, prosecutors revealed the previously confidential contents of a handwritten note with Thompson&#8217;s name and the shooting date found at his family&#8217;s house in the Hedingham subdivision. The note said the &#8220;reason I did this is because I hate humans they are destroying the planet\/earth,&#8221; adding that he killed his brother James &#8220;because he would get in my way.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thompson &#8220;cannot tell you why he wrote that note the way that he did,&#8221; defense lawyer Deonte&#8217; Thomas said, noting that he had no history of ecologically based anger. &#8220;And he cannot tell you why he ran down the streets of Hedingham terrorizing people that day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;he is not unredeemable, he is not incorrigible,&#8221; Thomas added in asking Ridgeway to give him the opportunity one day to tell parole commissioners he could &#8220;still be a productive person in society.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s attorneys argued that the rampage happened during a dissociative episode caused by the medicine he regularly took for acne. A psychiatrist who interviewed Thompson and a geneticist testified to bolster the explanation, but Ridgeway rejected the theory Friday, saying the facts belied the argument.  <\/p>\n<p>The judge seemed to account strongly for the prosecution&#8217;s evidence of Thompson&#8217;s internet search history leading up to the attack. They said it included school shootings and was related to guns, assaults and bomb-making materials, including details that Ridgeway said appeared to match his deadly actions.  <\/p>\n<p>Nicole Connors, 52; Raleigh police Officer Gabriel Torres, 29; Mary Marshall, 34; and Susan Karnatz, 49, also were killed in the rampage. Two other people were wounded, including another police officer involved in the search for Thompson. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the blink of an eye, everything changed for those people and for the people that they left behind,&#8221; Wake County assistant prosecutor Patrick Latour said Thursday while urging a sentence with no potential parole. &#8220;And the thing that made it change was not some acne medication. It was the defendant&#8217;s knowing, researched, well thought-out, planned, decisive actions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Jasmin Torres, the widow of Gabriel Torres and the mother of their 5-year-old daughter, asked Ridgeway last week to sentence Thompson to life without parole, calling him a &#8220;monster.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Rob Steele, Marshall&#8217;s fianc\u00e9 at the time of her death, said after the hearing that while five consecutive sentences of life without parole were &#8220;what we were all hoping for,&#8221; Thompson still &#8220;ended five lives for reasons that I still don&#8217;t really understand in this case.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s parents testified they couldn&#8217;t explain why their son committed the violence, calling him a normal, happy kid who did well in school and showed no signs of destruction. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s father pleaded guilty in 2024 to improperly storing his handgun that authorities said was found when his son was arrested. He received a suspended sentence and probation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We both lost our children, one at the hand of the other. 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