A school shooter who was 14 when he killed a first grader at a playground in South Carolina has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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The sentence comes as another teenage school shooter left a Californian community reeling with a rampage that killed two students and wounded three others.
Judge Lawton McIntosh said Jesse Osborne had shown little remorse after killing his father in their Anderson County home, then shooting at the playground at Townville Elementary School while a first grade class was celebrating a birthday party.
Osborne had attended Townville Elementary.
His former principal joined the teacher whose class was on the playground, the family of the boy killed, and Osborne's own uncle in asking for the life sentence.
Osborne, now 17, was being tried as an adult and faced a minimum of 30 years after pleading guilty to murder.
In the latest shooting, a teenager marked his 16th birthday by firing at students at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, killing two, before turning the gun on himself.
The unidentified teenager survived and is in hospital.
Australian Associated Press
