An Alabama teenager has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for executing five members of his family, including an infant and two young children, in a shocking murder described by the judge as “shrouded in absolute evil.”
Mason Sisk, now 18, learned his fate Thursday after an Alabama jury found him guilty in April of multiple counts of capital murder for the cold-blooded slayings of his father, stepmother and three younger siblings in 2019.
Sisk did not face the death penalty because he was a minor at the time of the crimes.
Circuit Judge Chadwick Wise wrote that Sisk’s crime was “appalling, disturbing, and shrouded in utter wickedness” and deserved the harshest punishment allowed by law.
Sisk apparently had no visible reaction to the sentence and made no statement in court, broadcaster WHNT reported.
Limestone County District Attorney Brian CT Jones shared a written statement with reporters after the sentencing, which read in part: “I have prosecuted many people in my career, and I can tell you that of all those people, only “Four out of five people scare me to death and he is at the top of my list.”
Mason Sisk, 18, was sentenced in Alabama to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing five members of his family. WHNT 19 News
“Mason Sisk is clearly one of the most dangerous people who will ever be sentenced in Limestone County,” Jones continued.
Sisk was just 14 years old when he shot each of his family members in the head at his home in Elkmont, prosecutors said.
John Wayne Sisk, 38, his wife, Mary Sisk, 35, and three of their children (Grayson, 6, Aurora, 4, and Colson, 6 months) were killed in the massacre.
Mason’s father, John Wayne Sisk, 38, and stepmother, Mary Sisk, 35, were found dead in their home in Elkmont, Alabama, in September 2019. WHNT News 19
Three of the couple’s children, 6-year-old Grayson, 4-year-old Aurora and 6-month-old Colson, died from gunshot wounds to the head. WHNT 19 News
Sisk initially told police that on Sept. 2, 2019, he was in the basement playing video games when he heard gunshots and ran outside to see a vehicle driving away, but later admitted that he had killed members of his family.
An audio recording played during a pretrial hearing revealed that Sisk told investigators about a possible motive for the murders.
“Yeah, they argue a lot and I got fed up,” Sisk said. “And the kids were going through a lot.”
Mason Sisk, who was 14 years old at the time of his arrest, initially professed his innocence but later admitted to the murders. Limestone County Sheriff’s Office
Prosecutors argued that Sisk had anger management problems and had threatened the entire family.
In court documents, they alleged that the teen previously mixed his stepmother’s coffee with peanut butter in an attempt to poison the woman, who had a severe peanut allergy.
Wise wrote that the Sisk murders were the rare case where a sentence of life in prison without parole was warranted for a juvenile defendant.
Mason (right) allegedly tried to poison his stepmother before the murders.WAFF
The judge found that the victims had been murdered while lying in bed. He wrote that the “circumstances of the Sisk case are far more dire” than other cases in which life sentences for juvenile defendants have been upheld.
Sisk’s juvenile probation officer wrote in a November 2020 report that he has “shown no sign of remorse” and has not mentioned his family during his detention.
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