MINNEAPOLIS – A man who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy in Minneapolis two years ago will spend over 20 years in prison.
Jeremiah Grady was handed down a 30 1/2 year sentence in court Friday morning, with just over 20 years of it being spent in prison and just over 10 years in supervised release. In May, the 20-year-old Grady pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted murder in London Bean’s death.
Bean’s grandmother Darlisa Williams shared her pain with the judge on Friday morning.
“I couldn’t wait for him to graduate high school but he never got a chance to be a teenager and go around with his cousins, aunties, and mother. Everyone in his family,” she said.
A fight almost broke out among the families inside the courtroom on Friday.
“Two see someone tell that you intentionally killed a 12-year-old child over a fight!” Bean’s mother Crystal Hill yelled. She was escorted out of the courtroom by a sheriff’s deputy.
“I’m mad as hell,” she said. “I’m so mad. I’m not happy. I’m mad as hell. I still feel like my son didn’t get his justice.”
Grady apologized in court on Friday, saying “I’d like to take it back, but I also hope one day you can forgive me.”
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