Anthony Bedney pleaded guilty to shooting a mother and her young son after a confrontation over Bedney’s riding a scooter near where children were playing.
Authorities say Reilly’s wife, Katie Reilly, and their five-year-old son had just been shot by a man who she and her husband had confronted over his riding a scooter in an area where children were playing. On Friday, the shooterAt a hearing in D.C. Superior Court to determine Bedney’s penalty, prosecutors played the harrowing 911 tape, and recalled the horror of the day.
Katie Reilly scolded Bedney, prosecutors said, and Bedney stepped off the scooter and began cursing at her. Patrick Reilly then emerged from the house, approached Bedney and began yelling at him, prosecutors said. At one point, Reilly walked over, picked up the scooter and hurled it toward Bedney, prosecutors said.Bedney then rushed away from the house, put a black mask over his face, pulled out a gun and began shooting toward the Reillys.
Keith Arnold, one of the neighbors whose children was playing with the Reilly’s children that evening, asked the judge to sentence Bedney to the maximum 20 years — the high end of the plea agreement that called for a 15 to 20 years sentence.Standing before the judge, Arnold spoke of how Katie Reilly spent six weeks in the hospital recovering.
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