Two siblings and a cousin have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for the killing of a stranger that was sparked by a “hollow threat” from an 11-year-old boy.

“Their actions can only be described as an outrageous, incomprehensible overreaction to an insult from a child,” Court of King’s Bench Justice Sadie Bond said at a sentencing hearing last week for siblings Ramona Harper and Raoul Harper and their cousin Kyle Harper.

Ramona Harper, 23, and Raoul Harper, 20, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the August 2023 killing of 38-year-old Cory Roulette and were sentenced to seven years in prison. Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Harper, who wielded the sawed-off rifle that killed Roulette, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 y

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