By Andrea Blanco For Dailymail.Com

• Prosecutors said on Monday that Ryan Grantham, 24, fatally shot his 64-year-old mother, Barbara Waite, ‘to save her’ from seeing his assassination plot unfold
• After shooting Waite in the back of her head as she played piano in 2020, Grantham covered her body with a sheet and placed rosaries and candles by her 
• He then stored three guns, ammunition and 12 Molotov cocktails in his car and headed to Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, prosecutors claimed
• Grantham had planned to travel more than 50 hours to kill Trudeau
• He changed his mind and considered committing ‘an act of mass violence’ at his former university 
• He turned himself to Vancouver police before harming anybody else and pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder

A Riverdale actor killed his mother to spare her from witnessing his plan to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

British Columbia prosecutors said during a sentencing hearing on Monday that Ryan Grantham, 24, fatally shot his 64-year-old mother, Barbara Waite, ‘to save her’ from seeing his assassination plot against the Canadian prime minister unfold.

After shooting Waite in the back of her head as she played piano on March 31, 2020, Grantham covered her body with a sheet and placed rosaries and candles around her, Canadian outlet CBC reported.

He then stored three guns, ammunition and 12 Molotov cocktails in his car and headed to Rideau Cottage in Ottawa, prosecutors claimed.

Grantham had planned to travel more than 50 hours to kill Trudeau, before changing his mind and considering committing ‘an act of mass violence,’ at Simon Fraser University, which he had dropped out from.

He turned himself to Vancouver police before harming anybody else and pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder.

Grantham is most known for playing Jeffery Augustine in Riverdale, His character was written into the show as the hit-and-run killer of Luke Perry’s character, after Perry died of a stroke.

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