Teen shot classmate on campus steps ‘until the gun was empty,’ then told cops ‘if you’re going to shoot someone, you may as well finish the job’

A Pennsylvania teenager who gunned down a classmate on their school steps because he said the victim had taken his Beats headphones will spend decades behind bars.

Jaymier Perry was 15 years old when he was charged with the murder of Derrick Harris Jr., who was also 15, as Law&Crime previously reported.

The defendant was ordered by a judge on Wednesday to serve 35 years to life in state prison after he pleaded guilty last month to first-degree murder, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Because he was 15 years old at the time of the crime, Perry avoided the mandatory penalty of life without parole…

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