politics | January 02, 2026

Who is Veronica Youngblood? 38-year-old Virginia woman sentenced to 78 years in prison for murdering daughters aged 5 and 15

A Virginia mother who took care of her kids dozing pills prior to shooting them in their beds to rebuff her ex was condemned to 78 years in jail
Veronica Youngblood, 38, was captured in August 2018
She killed 15-year-old Sharon Castro and 5-year-old Brooklynn Youngblood in their McLean loft

A 38-year-old mother from Virginia has been condemned to 78 years in jail.

Who is Veronica Youngblood?

Veronica Youngblood controlled resting pills to her kids prior to shooting them in their beds, for the purpose of rebuffing her ex. The shocking occurrence happened in their McLean condo in August 2018 and prompted the passings of 15-year-old Sharon Castro and 5-year-old Brooklynn Youngblood.

Prior to her condemning in Fairfax Province Region Court, Veronica, talking through a Spanish translator, communicated, “I’ve been a decent mother, yet something occurred, I don’t have the foggiest idea how to make sense of it. Something detonated to me.”

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Sharon figured out how to call 911 in the wake of being shot by her mom, yet she didn’t make due, unfortunately. The hearers were profoundly impacted by the upsetting emergency call recording, to the degree that they mentioned treatment.

Ron Youngblood, the dad of the kids, guaranteed that Veronica had given the youngsters melatonin-bound chewy candies and completed the homicides on August 5 for the purpose of getting payback against him. He expressed, “Those young ladies were influence to her — influence to get what she needed from me. She clearly realized those young ladies were the main things in my day to day existence.”

The couple had initially wanted to move to Missouri together, yet Veronica adjusted her perspective without a second to spare. A court administering conceded Ron guardianship of Brooklynn, his natural girl, and Sharon, Veronica’s girl from an earlier relationship. Examiners uncovered that Veronica started plotting the horrifying wrongdoing and bought a firearm multi week before the killings.

Veronica argued not blameworthy by reason of madness, but rather the jury dismissed this safeguard and suggested the extensive jail term that the appointed authority eventually forced.

During the preliminary, proof was introduced that Veronica had encountered physical and sexual maltreatment during her life as a youngster and had gone to sex function as a teen to help her oldest little girl. She experienced childhood in destitution in Argentina.

The safeguard tried to have Veronica carry out the two homicide punishments simultaneously as opposed to successively, which would have diminished her jail time to 42 years, yet this solicitation was denied by Fairfax Province Circuit Court Judge Randy Howls. Judge Howls remarked, “Moms and fathers have numerous obligations, yet none is more grave than protecting their youngsters. Sadly, their mom turned into the instrument of their demise.”

Ron, who was available in court for the condemning, communicated his insight into Veronica’s resentment toward him however never envisioned she could commit such a terrible demonstration against their little girls.