Judge’s Order Today in Townville Shooter’s Case

Around the 1 o’clock hour this afternoon, well-placed sources informed 101.7 WGOG News that momentarily a judge’s order will be filed in the Clerk of Courts office in Anderson County in the case of Jesse Osborne, the young man who was serving life sentences for fatal shootings in Townville, including those at that community’s elementary school. The school shootings occurred a handful of years ago and since Osborne’s guilty plea in 2018, his sentences have been served quietly, at least so far as the public is concerned. However, a few months ago lawyers working on behalf of the shooter appealed to the circuit court judge Lawton McIntosh, for a reduction in the sentences and since then, McIntosh apparently has had the request under consideration. After having heard feedback from both the prosecution and the defense, what we’ve learned is his ruling is imminent by way of an order to be filed early this afternoon in the Anderson Clerk of Court’s office. Osborne was an expelled Oconee County School student before he opened fire killing a first grader and wounding a teacher. He was 17 years old at the time of his guilty plea and 14 years old at the time of the shootings.