Years after Oklahoma teen Josh Bryant convicted of killing stepmom, where are they now?

Years later, the case of an Oklahoma 17-year-old who shot and killed his mother still draws true crime attention.

Joshua Thomas Bryant was 19 when he pleaded guilty in May 2019 in Oklahoma County District Court and agreed to a sentence of 40 years in prison. He is now 23.

Here's what we know about the case:

Investigators say Josh Bryant killed mom, fled scene

Bryant told Edmond police he hit Katherine Deena Bryant, 54, in the head with an aluminum baseball bat in their family home April 4, 2017. He then dragged her unconscious body to the garage and shot her in the head with a rifle, police said.

Defense attorney Scott Adams said Bryant was suffering from mental illness at the time of the incident, but no specific reason for the attack has been discovered. Bryant told investigators he and his stepmother had a good relationship and they didn’t argue before he killed her.

Testimony in the case reported Bryant has experienced depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Police arrested him in Blackwell three hours after the shooting. He was stopped on Interstate 35 while driving his mother’s car.

Josh Bryant's father found wife dead, called 911

The defendant’s father, Brad Bryant, had found his wife dead in the garage and reported his son to police.

“My son has killed my wife,” he said in a 911 call. "He had a crazy story, and now he has stolen the car, and I went looking for her and she's in the garage and she's been hit in the head. She's dead.”

Brad and Katherine Bryant had been married since May 2016.

The father said he had come home after picking up his daughter from the gym and was planning to take his son, a baseball player, to a pitching lesson. Bryant was a student at Boulevard Academy alternative school.

He struck his stepmother in the front dining room and then sat on the kitchen floor for five minutes “contemplating his actions,” according to a court affidavit. He then shot her in the garage because she was suffering and he didn’t want to see her in pain, detectives testified.

Investigators said Bryant claimed he left the crime scene not to run away, but to “clear his head.”

Where are they now?

Bryant has been incarcerated at the R.B. Dick Conner Correctional Center in Hominy, Oklahoma since June 2019.

He is now 23 and is scheduled to be released from prison in 2059.

According to property records, Brad Bryant still owns the home where the murder occurred.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: What's the latest on the Josh Bryant murder case in Oklahoma?