CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Bionca Ellis will spend the rest of her life behind bars for murdering 3-year-old Julian Wood outside a North Olmsted grocery store.

Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo on Monday handed down a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 34-year-old Cleveland woman with a documented history of schizophrenia.

A jury previously found Ellis guilty of aggravated murder and attempted murder in the random attack on Julian and his mother, Margot Wood, in a Giant Eagle parking lot on June 3, 2024.

Margot Wood said she hated Ellis and, along with prosecutors, urged Russo to impose the maximum sentence.

“That woman murdering my son replays in my head every single day,” she said. “It is my living nightmare. The last thing I will eve

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