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A 74-year-old grandmother shot her 17-year-old grandson six times. He was on the phone with 911, bleeding on the floor, begging for help when she walked up and fired again. Jonathan Hoffman wasn’t even supposed to be living with his grandparents. His little sister had a brain tumor, and his parents had moved to Arizona to be with her through treatment. So Jonathan stayed behind in Michigan with Sandra Layne an arrangement meant to keep him steady while he dealt with his own problems. He was on probation. He’d struggled with drugs. On May 18, 2012, he failed a drug test for synthetic marijuana. That same day, the two of them argued. Layne would later say her grandson demanded $2,000 and a car, hit her, and chased her through the house. So she got her gun. Over about six minutes, she fired ten shots. Six hit him two in the back. He was in gym shorts and socks. There was nowhere for him to go. In the middle of it, Jonathan managed to call 911. The dispatcher heard him say: “My grandma shot me. I’m gonna die. Help.” And then, while he was still on the line, another gunshot. “I got shot again,” he said. When police arrived, Sandra Layne walked out holding the gun and told them: “I murdered my grandson.” Jonathan died at the hospital. At trial she said it was self-defense a frightened old woman protecting herself from a violent teenager high on drugs. But she had no visible injuries. And the jury kept coming back to that 911 recording: a dying boy on the phone, and the sound of his own grandmother firing again. Second-degree murder. At least 22 years. The coldest verdict didn’t come from the jury. It came from her own daughter Jonathan’s mother who refused to call her “mom” in that courtroom and said Sandra Layne was “pure evil.” So here’s what the case never fully settled: was this a terrified grandmother defending her life from a violent, drug-addicted teenager or a woman who chased a boy in socks around her house and kept pulling the trigger while he begged a stranger to save him?