This is a relief day, I would say,” Smith told reporters after the sentencing, adding that he hoped his team had “done honor” to the victims and their loved ones. Shayna Aspinwall, the wife of math teacher and football coach Richard Aspinwall, described “a life sentence of grief and trauma for those left behind.” Gray had the “mental wherewithal” to mimic details of other mass killings on the day of the shooting, Smith said. The judge acknowledged that Gray had been failed by his parents, his extended family and, to a certain extent, society. “But that failure does not absolve you from who you chose to idolize, worship and become,” Primm told Gray.