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Jesse Osborne Teen Killer School Shooter

Jesse Osborne was fourteen years old when he fatally shot his father and then drove to an elementary school where he would fatally shoot a six year old boy. According to court documents Jesse Osborne would fatally shoot his father who has been described as abusive before driving to Townville Elementary School where he would open fire striking the six year old boy in the leg who would die in the hospital three days later. This teen killer who was tackled by a firefighter during the school shooting had spent the last few years trying to keep his case in juvenile court however that would be a battle that he would lose. Today Jesse Osborne was sentenced to life in prison

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On a day another deadly shooting took place at a school across the country, Jesse Osborne, the teenager responsible for a shooting at a South Carolina elementary school in 2016, was sentenced to life in prison.

Judge Lawton McIntosh handed down the sentence in Anderson after tearful, heart-wrenching statements from family members of Jacob Hall, the 6-year-old first-grader who Osborne mortally wounded on a playground at Townville Elementary School.

Osborne was 14 at the time and is 17 now.

He has 10 days to appeal his sentence.

“We’re very disappointed in the result, but the courts will undoubtedly have to continue dealing with sentencing juveniles to life without parole and will have to continue to deal with the issue of school shootings,” said Frank Eppes, Osborne’s lead attorney.

Filled with emotion of their own, Osborne’s family members portrayed the teenager as a victim of abuse at the hands of his father, Jeffrey Osborne, the 47-year-old man who Jesse Osborne shot and killed before driving 3 miles to the school in rural Upstate South Carolina on Sept. 28, 2016.

Osborne pleaded guilty in December to killing his father and Jacob, and to attempted murder related to trying to kill other students and a teacher on the playground. This week’s hearing was mandated by state law because of his age at the time of the crimes. The judge considered the circumstances of the crimes, Osborne’s maturity level, his home and family life, and whether it is believed he can be rehabilitated.

“This is the sentence that we hoped for and that these crimes called for,” said Solicitor David Wagner. “You can’t come into our community, into our schools, and do what he did. I hope this sends a message to anyone else who would think about doing something like this.”

Osborne spent 13 or 14 hours a day alone in a basement or bedroom that had little natural light and was in “total isolation” in the months before the shooting, according to his grandfather Tommy Osborne.

The teen had been expelled from middle school after bringing a hatchet and a machete in his backpack, and he was taking online classes at home. He normally would have gone to his grandparents’ house after school to do homework and have a meal, but he didn’t see them as often then, according to testimony Thursday in the Anderson County Courthouse.

His father owned a chicken farm, but he was having financial trouble and had borrowed money from his family. Jeffrey Osborne had a temper, and especially when he drank, he became dark and threatening, according to testimony from his family and a psychiatrist who saw Jesse after the shooting.

Tommy Osborne testified that Jeffrey, his son, had once threatened him when Jeffrey was under the influence of alcohol.

“After that, I made sure I had some kind of protection,” Tommy Osborne testified. “I carried a .38.”

And Jeffrey Osborne did more than threaten his family, according to testimony. His son, Jesse, told his grandparents that his dad had “hit him with a ball bat.” Ryan Brock, Jesse’s half-brother, testified earlier that Jeffrey Osborne was horribly abusive to Jesse.

“He would make him pull his pants down… get sticks, belts, whatever he could find, and just start whaling on Jesse,” Brock said. “I could hear the screams throughout the house.”

Jesse was mostly alone with no friends except a group of people he communicated with on the internet, according to testimony from his grandfather.

The portrait of Jesse Osborne that was presented Thursday was starkly different from the one prosecutors presented earlier in the week.

Prosecutors described him as the boy who planned the Townville school shooting for days and maybe weeks. The boy who videoed himself combing his hair just before the shooting and saying that he needed to “look fabulous” because of what he was about to do. The boy who hoped to kill dozens more than he did, according to messages attributed to him.

Late Thursday, prosecutors recalled psychiatrist James Ballenger to the stand. Ballenger already said he was “pessimistic” about how much good treatment would do for Jesse Osborne. He was asked again Thursday about whether Osborne can be rehabilitated.

“I certainly think he is dangerous and I think he will remain dangerous,” Ballenger said. “Anything under God’s green earth is possible, but I wouldn’t say (rehabilitation) is likely.”

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Koalten Orr Teen Killer Murders Fathers Fiance

Koalten Orr was fourteen when he fatally shot his father’s fiance. According to court documents Koalten Orr would shoot Laura Hendrix and then walked to a police station to tell them what he had done. Initially Koalten told police he was being abused by Hendrix but this proved to be false. This teen killer would be sentenced to life in prison however he only needs to serve the first twenty five years

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Gender: MaleRace: White

Height: 5 ft 4 in

Weight: 119 lbs

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Blue

OK DOC#: 793921

Birth Date: 1/29/2002

Current Facility: JOSEPH HARP CORRECTIONAL CENTER, LEXIN

Reception Date: 5/22/2018

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A 16-year-old Oklahoma boy has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his father’s fiance and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Koalten Glenn Orr, who was charged and convicted as an adult, was sentenced to life with the chance for parole, with all but the first 25 years suspended, after entering the plea Friday in Craig County District Court in Vinita.

Under the law, a teenager is tried as an adult if charged with first-degree murder.

Orr was 14 when he was charged in the August 2016 shooting death of 38-year-old Laura Hendrix at their home in Vinita.

After shooting Hendrix, Orr walked into the police station and confessed to police that he gunned down his stepmother.

He apologized to Hendrix’s family “for everything” following the sentencing.

Orr initially said he shot Hendrix because she was abusing him, but prosecutors say evidence proves that claim was false.

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A Vinita teen pleaded guilty Friday to fatally shooting his stepmother in 2016.

Koalten Orr was sentenced to life in prison, with all but 25 years suspended.

Orr is to pay a $500 fine, $5,041.78 in restitution and will be on supervised probation when he is released from the Department of Corrections, court records show.

2 Works for You reported back in November 2017, that Orr shot 38-year-old Laura Hendrix. Orr told police that Hendrix “sexually abused him and that he was tired of the abuse.”

Past court proceedings showed those allegations were not credible.

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Heather Opel Teen Killer Murders Man

Heather Opel was just thirteen years old when she helped to murder a man. According to court documents Heather Opel who was thirteen, her fourteen year old friend Marriam Oliver, seventeen year old Jeffrey Grote and fourteen year old Kyle Boston were paid by Barbara Opel to murder a man she had problems with.

The teenage killers would ambush the victim and would beat and stab him to death. Heather Opel and Marrian Oliver were sentenced to twenty two years in prison, Jeffrey Grote received a fifty year sentence and Kyle Boston was sentenced to eighteen years. Barbara Opel received a life sentence for arranging the murder.

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Relatives of a man brutally murdered by five teens finally had their chance to confront one of the killers in court.

“Heather Opel says she deserves a chance for the future. I ask why,” said Colleen Muller, the daughter of Jerry Heimann, who was beaten to death by the teens on April 13, 2001.

“Life in prison is what she deserves,” said Muller, who noted the 14-year-old girl willingly took part in the group execution after living under Heimann’s roof, eating his food and accepting his Christmas presents.

“They have ruined so many lives,” Muller said.

Prosecuting attorneys asked for a sentence of almost 25 years.

But Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Linda Krese, who last month found Opel guilty of first-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon, issued a sentence yesterday of 22 years, the mandated minimum, with no time off for good behavior.

With credit for time already served, Opel, one of the youngest defendants to ever face adult murder charges in the county, will be released in her mid-30s.

She is to serve time at juvenile facilities until she is 21, then transfer to the Purdy Correctional Center for Women to serve out the rest of her sentence.

In an agreement worked out with prosecutors, Opel waived her right to a jury trial to avoid a more serious charge of aggravated murder.

Yesterday, the girl, in gray-green prison garb and shackles with her hair stylishly gelled, turned to face the family and offer them an apology.

“I want to say I’m sorry to Mr. Heimann’s family,” said the thin, athletic teen, a former star on the basketball court at Evergreen Middle School. “I really hope you will accept my apology — and if you don’t, I understand why.”

Krese noted both the heinous nature of the crime and the dysfunctional upbringing of the teen in making her sentencing.

“Parents are supposed to be a moral compass,” she said. “It is clear that in Ms. Opel’s life, that moral compass was broken.”

Police say the plot to kill Heimann and steal his money was masterminded by the girl’s mother, Barbara Opel, at the time a live-in caretaker for Heimann’s 89-year-old mother, who has Alzheimer’s.

According to court documents, Opel recruited four boys and her daughter, then 13, promising them money and gifts.

Records say she yelled encouragement from a hiding place as they savagely beat 64-year-old Heimann to death with baseball bats and stabbed him with knives as he pleaded for help.

Records show the mother had her 7- and 11-year-old children help clean up the blood, then piled everyone in the car to dump the body in a remote spot on the Tulalip reservation.

Heimann’s invalid mother, who witnessed the crime, was found abandoned in the house, eating newspapers, when out-of-town relatives stopped by the house days later.

Barbara Opel will be tried for aggravated murder in February 2003. If convicted, she will become the first woman in the state of Washington to face the possibility of the death penalty.

Heather Opel’s attorney David Roberson described a long record of complaints about Barbara Opel that were reported to Child Protective Services in the girl’s infancy and childhood.

The state, he said, did nothing to prevent the constant physical and mental abuses of Heather and her siblings.

He described the convicted teenage killer as “a 13-year-old who never had a chance.”

Following the sentencing, Heather Opel’s attorneys filed an appeal of the decision to try her as an adult in court.

If the ruling is overturned, she will be incarcerated in juvenile prison, and could not be held past her 21st birthday.

Heimann’s family declined to talk to the media after yesterday’s sentencing.

Prosecutors said the relatives were too upset.

“They had hoped for as long a sentence as possible,” said Chris Dickinson.

He described the case as the “most unusual and mind-boggling case we have ever been involved in.”

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Stephanie Olsen Teen Killer Murders Mother

Stephanie Olsen was a seventeen year old from Kentucky who along with her boyfriend David Dressman would stab her mother to death. According to court documents Stephanie Olsen and her mother had different opinions regarding David Dressman and when her mother refused to let her teenage daughter move out the teenage couple decided to murder her. The teenage couple who would flee the State a month before the murder made it to Georgia before being picked up and sent back to Kentucky. The two teenagers would enlist yet another teen, Timothy Crabtree, who they promised a portion of the life insurance.

Stephanie Olsen would lure her mother to her bedroom with David following behind. The mother would be stabbed repeatedly leading to her death. Stephanie Olsen and David Dressman would leave the home for the night. The next day Stephanie would go back to the home and call police.

Initially David Dressman and Timothy Crabtree were arrested and charged with the murder. Stephanie Olsen would be arrested ten months later. Timothy Crabtree would plead guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and received six years. David Dressman would receive twenty years for the conspiracy and ten years for burglary. This teen killer received twenty five years in prison.

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Name:	OLSEN, STEPHANIE DENISE Active Inmate	Offender Photo(Click image to enlarge)
PID # / DOC #:	103234 / 179976
Institution Start Date:	7/14/2005
Expected Time To Serve (TTS):	12/16/2025
Classification:	Medium (Level 3)
Minimum Expiration of Sentence Date (Good Time Release Date): ?	12/16/2025
Parole Eligibility Date:	9/09/2024
Maximum Expiration of Sentence Date:	9/08/2029
Location:	KY Corr. Inst. for Women
Age:	35
Race:	White
Gender:	F
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Blond or Strawberry
Height:	5′ 01″
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A woman convicted of complicity in the 2002 stabbing death of her mother at their home in The Colony has lost a bid for a reduced sentence.

Stephanie Denise Olsen’s motion to cut five years from her 25-year term was rejected Wednesday by Scott County Circuit Judge Paul Isaacs, court documents show.

Isaacs said Olsen’s motion, filed in October 2014, unsuccessfully argued that her being a minor who was tried as an adult and a lack of physical evidence against her, as well as her actions during her imprisonment since 2005, provided reason to trim her sentence.

Crabtree pleaded guilty to conspiracy and was sentenced to six years.

In her motion for a reduced sentence, Olsen cites “numerous mitigating factors, all of which were introduced at trial.”

One such factor was her being 17 years old at the time of her mother’s murder, that her co-defendants received lesser sentences and that she has overcome addiction issues she had at the time of the crime.

In his response, Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Keith Eardley says there is no “factual or legal basis” to permit a sentence reduction.

“The positive steps [Olsen] has taken while incarcerated, while commendable, have nothing to do with the fundamental fairness of the trial proceeding and do not constitute a basis for relief,” Eardley wrote in his Aug. 21, 2015, response.

Olsen currently is incarcerated in the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women at Pewee Valley.

State Corrections Department online records show her maximum sentence would expire Sept. 8, 2029, while her expected time to serve is until April 24, 2027.

Stephanie Olsen becomes eligible for parole on Sept. 9, 2024.

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After more than eight hours of deliberations lasting into Friday morning, a Scott County jury found Stephanie Olsen guilty of a charge of complicity to murder her mother.

Stephanie Olsen screamed “Oh my God” and started crying after the verdict was read at 12:45 a.m. Her dad and stepmother also cried as they watched bailiffs lead Olson to the Scott County Detention Center.

The penalty phase will begin at 10 a.m. today. The jury could sentence Olson to 20 years to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors say Stephanie Olsen conspired with her then-boyfriend, David Dressman, and Timothy Crabtree to kill Diane Snellen for financial gain and due to rifts with her mother over Dressman.

Dressman has been charged with murdering Snellen, while Crabtree accepted a prosecution’s deal and entered an Alford plea to a lesser charge of conspiracy. The plea allows Crabtree to recognize the evidence against him without admitting guilt.

Snellen, a 41-year-old Toyota employee, was found nude on the floor of her daughter’s upstairs bedroom with 27 stab wounds to her chest, neck and head on June 6, 2002.

During his closing argument, Commonwealth’s Attorney Gordie Shaw called Snellen’s murder one of the worst he had ever seen, saying her killing was something “personal” and left Snellen with no time to struggle.

“When this happened, it happened fast, it happened hard,” Shaw said, adding that Snellen’s body looked as though she had been hit by a truck.

Shaw said Stephanie Olson wanted her mother dead so she could lead her own life, a life without Snellen’s rules and restrictions.

“She couldn’t wait six months to turn 18, and maybe she wanted the money with no wait,” Shaw said. “I don’t know what goes through the mind of somebody like that.”

Shaw said Snellen was killed sometime after Stephanie Olson got off the phone with her mother at 10:26 p.m. and before Olson and Dressman went to Lexington after midnight. Defense attorney Rodney Barnes challenged the time of death, saying the prosecution had presented “too tight of a time frame” for the murder to have taken place and for evidence to have been destroyed.

In his closing argument, Barnes told jurors that Georgetown police Detective Tom Bell had made “some serious mistakes” in his investigation of Snellen’s murder. Among the errors, Barnes said police did not search the home of Snellen’s boyfriend, Todd Johnson, did not search the field behind Snellen’s house and did not investigate connections with other murders.

Instead, Barnes told jurors police zeroed in on Stephanie Olson and ignored other leads, focusing on his client because she had lied about leaving her friends’ apartment because she bought marijuana and later had sex.

“They made up their mind the day after this murder,” Barnes said.

Shaw denied Barnes’ allegations, mentioning the work Bell had done by contacting other agencies and eliminating other suspects.

“They had some darn good suspects in the first 24 hours, but they didn’t shut down their investigation,” Shaw said of the police. “They kept going.”

Shaw pointed out that when Stephanie Olson was approached by Georgetown Police Sgt. Matt Sly after a failed attempt to go to Florida with Dressman, the teen admitted smoking pot. Olson also told Officer Tom Payne outside of her home that she had gone parking with her boyfriend when he responded to Olson’s 911 call.

“Folks, I’m telling you, their defense was gone with our first two witnesses,” Shaw told jurors.

Barnes also spoke to the lack of physical evidence in the case and questioned the credibility of several of the prosecution’s witnesses, including Crabtree.

Having once been charged with murder, burglary and complicity to murder, Barnes said the prosecution must have “been really hungry” to offer Crabtree a deal where he will serve a maximum of six years in prison.

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Brandon Olivieri Teen Killer Murders 2 Teenagers

Brandon Olivieri was sixteen when he was in an altercation with another youth that would end with two teenagers dead. According to court documents this teen killer was involved with a rival when a gun came into play and Olivieri would shoot and kill the rival and another bullet would strike and kill his friend,

Brandon Olivieri would receive a 37 year to life prison term for the first murder and up to four years for the accidental killing

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A man who as a juvenile shot and killed two other boys in a squabble that ripped apart a South Philadelphia neighborhood has been sentenced to at least 37 years in prison.

Brandon Olivieri, now 18, shot a neighborhood rival Sal DiNubile during a struggle on the street Oct. 24, 2017. Olivieri also shot his own friend, Caleer Miller, during that struggle over the handgun.

Both victims were 16 years old at the time, as was Olivieri.

In May this year, Olivieri was convicted of first-degree murder for DiNubile’s killing and third-degree murder for Miller’s death.

At sentencing Monday, a judge gave Brandon Olivieri 35 years to life in prison for the first-degree charge and two to four years for the third-degree charge.

Olivieri tearfully surrendered to police three days after the shooting. Around the same time, an internal police bulletin with his name, photo and address was leaked to a local Facebook group. A few hours later, a gunman riddled Olivieri’s home with bullets.

Defense attorney James Lammendola said at the time that Olivieri’s parents were “scared out of their minds that their house was shot” and he also feared for their son’s safety.

Brandon Olivieri has spent much of his time in isolated confinement while imprisoned the last 21 months, according to the court docket.

The three-day trial ended May 17 after a jury deliberated for just three hours.

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Friends and relatives of two teens slain at 12th and Ritner Streets in 2017 might have used the convicted killer’s sentencing hearing Monday morning to close a chapter in a criminal case that attracted citywide attention and led to ongoing tensions in South Philadelphia.

But it quickly became apparent inside Courtroom 306 at the Stout Center for Criminal Justice that emotions surrounding the fatal shootings of Salvatore DiNubile and Caleer Miller remained raw — and their killer, Brandon Olivieri, added to the tension by speaking about the case for the first time and declaring that he was innocent.

“I should not be the one sitting here today,” Olivieri said. He did not elaborate, but his North Philadelphia lawyer, Todd Mosser, vowed to appeal.

The drama unfolded as Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara A. McDermott sentenced Olivieri to 37 years to life in prison in the crimes. And it was just one episode in a day that began with conflict emblematic of the discord that has dogged the case.

Early in the morning, before the boys’ friends and relatives tearfully delivered victim-impact statements, DiNubile’s father and others in the audience had to be temporarily removed from the courtroom after a shouting match erupted. Supporters of the DiNubiles called Olivieri’s parents “crumbs” who had “raised a drug-dealing murderer,” while the Olivieris pleaded with sheriffs to take action on what they called “terroristic threats” against them.

Once the hearing got underway, testimony by Olivieri and his parents elicited groans or barbs from the slain teens’ supporters.

McDermott, in imposing a sentence two years above the mandatory minimum, told Olivieri: “This is an example of what happens when you have a gun.” Olivieri did not receive the automatic life sentence typically imposed for the crimes because he committed them as a juvenile.

Miller’s mother, Aishah George, said afterward that she did not believe Olivieri’s claim of innocence, and that she “never” wants him to be released from prison. “Caleer can’t come back,” she said.

The hearing was the most recent example of how the killing has resulted in lingering fallout, particularly between friends and relatives of DiNubile and Olivieri.

The teens were students at different schools — DiNubile went to St. Joseph’s Preparatory School, Miller attended Mastery Charter School’s Thomas campus, and Olivieri went to Neumann Goretti High School — but their social circles at least loosely overlapped.

Olivieri was found guilty in May of shooting DiNubile on Oct. 24, 2017, after wandering the streets of South Philadelphia with Miller and other friends looking for a fight.

Prosecutors Matt Krouse and David Osborne said that when Olivieri encountered DiNubile at 12th and Ritner, near DiNubile family’s home, Olivieri pulled a gun because of a lingering feud fueled by Instagram. The two teens struggled over the weapon and three shots were fired, one striking DiNubile and one striking Miller by mistake.

A jury voted to convict Olivieri of first-degree murder for killing DiNubile and third-degree murder for killing Miller, as well as several related weapons counts.

When the proceedings Monday got underway, 14 people delivered victim impact statements remembering the slain teens.

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