James Pietragallo

He's attended other hearings.

Alexander Krause said he declined to speak, and he just said, I would say it's a mental illness that caused this to happen and only mental illness.

That's all he would say.

September 2021 prosecutors offer a deal plead guilty to four counts of second degree murder instead of first degree murder and in exchange life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years.

Pretty decent deal.

That's a good deal.

It takes into consideration his lack of criminal record, his age at the time of the crime, and his clearly fucked up mental state.

Clearly there's something wrong here.

So the district attorney presented the prosecution's case, him pulling out a baseball bat from a long paper bag to show.

Took it out back to swing practice.

And it's covered in blood.

I mean, it's stained red.

It's nasty.

Oh, God.

Goes through the timeline, the practice swings on the apples, and talks about the cops calling to try to – people calling to try to stop him.

And they said the calls came too late, Your Honor.

They have family impact statements here talking about this.

The sister said the utter brutality, the human indecency, the cruelty of this act is beyond comprehension.

There are acts that with the veracity, the ferocity, the complete cruelty that our loved ones met that day is a darkness beyond any theology or any philosophy and maybe any psychology of understanding.

He said, they said, anything to say for yourself?