The Ohio teen who was convicted of shooting and killing three students at a high school near Cleveland was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.
At his sentencing, T.J. Lane, made an obscene gesture to the families of the victims, while wearing a white T-shirt that had the word “KILLER” emblazoned across the front.
In February 2012, Lane pulled out a pistol in the cafeteria of Chardon High School near Cleveland and opened fire, hitting four students. Three of the students were killed and one was paralyzed.
ABC News reported that Lane removed a blue button down shirt and revealed a white T-shirt with the word “KILLER” handwritten across the front in black letters.
“Frankly, I wasn’t prepared for this,” the case’s prosecutor said, according to the broadcaster. “This is confirming what we have known all along, that this was a cold, calculated, premeditated killing.”
Lane also wore a shirt that said “KILLER” when he was arrested after the shooting.
Last month, he pleaded guilty to the three murders and reportedly showed no remorse.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Geauga County Common Pleas Judge David Fuhry sentenced Lane to three life sentences without parole for killing 16-year-old Daniel Parmertor, 16-year-old Demetrius Hewlin, and 17-year-old Russell King. Nick Walczak, another student, was paralyzed in the attack
The mother of Parmertor described Lane as a “pathetic excuse for a human being” before he was sentenced on Tuesday.
Fuhry said, “The victims of the rampage no way provoked or incited or deserved what they received.”
Holly Walczak, the mother of paralyzed victim Nick Walczak, said in court, “Because of you, our quiet little town will never be the same. Why? Why did you do it? Why?” according to NBC News.
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