Imprisoned Townvile shooter to return to court
According to a court motions docket, the young man responsible for the Townville shootings seven years ago makes a new court appearance this afternoon – in the hope that his life sentence plus 30-years will be relaxed. In 2019, Jesse Osborne pleaded guilty to the murder of his father and the subsequent shootings that killed a 1st grade Townville Elementary student and wounded a second classmate and a teacher. The motion to re-consider sentence is to be made on his behalf by the attorney Frank Eppes. Hearing the motion today at the Anderson Courthouse will be the circuit judge Lawton McIntosh, sentencing judge in the case. Before sentencing, the judge and the courtroom heard three days of testimony in which the defense and mental and behavioral health experts sparred as to the motivations that drove the emotionally and physically abused 14-year old to commit the shootings, and offer reasons whether he might or might not be able to be rehabilitated.