Teen who shot 3 people at Pa. shopping mall wasn’t sentenced too severely, appeals court says
Updated 1:29 PM;
A 15- to 30-year prison sentence imposed on a 17-year-old boy who shot three people during a rampage at a Pennsylvania shopping mall was upheld by a state appeals court panel Thursday despite the gunman’s claim that his mental health problems weren’t adequately considered.
An Allegheny County judge did consider Tarod Thornhill’s psychiatric issues, but simply didn’t give them the weight Thornhill desired, Judge Maria McLaughlin found in the Superior Court’s opinion.
Thornhill committed the shooting spree inside the Macy’s store in the Monroeville Mall in February 2015. He shot one man three times and wounded another couple who were in the store with their young child.