Woman Gets Life for 3 Shopping Mall Killings
A woman convicted of killing three people during a 1985 shooting spree at a shopping mall has been sent to prison for life after psychiatrists said they could do nothing more to treat her mental illness.
Sylvia Seegrist, 27, was transferred Thursday from a state hospital to the State Correctional Institution at Muncy to begin serving three consecutive life sentences for the random shootings at the Springfield Mall, prison spokeswoman Anne Forgacs said.
Seegrist was judged guilty but mentally ill in June, 1986, on three counts of murder and seven counts of attempted murder stemming from the Oct. 30, 1985, shootings. She opened fire with a rifle on shoppers at the crowded mall.
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