A 15-year-old Pennsylvania boy will spend upwards of three decades behind bars for shooting and killing his 12-year-old friend during an argument just before a planned sleepover.

In June, Nolan Grove was found guilty of all the charges against him — including murder in the third degree —by jurors in York County for the April 2023 death of Kain Heiland. The defendant was also found guilty of one count of illegal gun possession as a minor, carrying a firearm without a license, and four counts of reckless endangerment.

Pennsylvania is one of only three jurisdictions in the entire country that still has the crime of third-degree murder on the books.

On Thursday, York County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Maria Musti Cook handed down a sentence of between 15 and 30 years for the murde

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