Jennifer Gould

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A cold-blooded teenage gunman who turned a quiet North Carolina neighborhood into a suburban slaughterhouse has finally surrendered his fight in court.

Austin Thompson, the now 18-year-old, accused of a 2022 shooting spree that left five people dead and a community shattered, filed a bombshell notice of a plea flip that he is guilty of all charges.

Robert Steele's fiancée was among those killed.

He spoke to WRAL News.

The move bypasses a February trial and sends the case straight to a sentencing phase where Thompson faces life behind bars for the carnage he unleashed in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The massacre began on October 13th, 2022, when a then 15-year-old Thompson donned camouflage and allegedly executed his own 16-year-old brother, James Thompson, inside their Saheliway home.

Armed with a shotgun and handgun, he then stalked the Hendingham neighborhood and Neuse River Greenway, picking off victims who never saw him coming.

The fallen include off-duty Raleigh police officer Gabriel Torres, 29, who was shot in his car, Mary Marshall, 34.

killed while walking her dog.

Nicole Connors, 52, gunned down on her porch, and Susan Carnatz, 49, who was murdered while out for a jog.

Thompson was eventually cornered in a barn after a five-hour standoff, suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head that left him with permanent severe brain injury.

In a three-page court filing,

Thompson's attorneys admitted that while the teen's brain damage leaves him, quote, unable to explain his homicidal motives, end quote, he accepts full responsibility for the, quote, unquote, deep pain he caused.

Thompson faces five counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder for the wounding of Marcille Lynn Gardner and Officer Casey Clark.