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David Allan Ohlson, who was 18 when he shot his mother at their home in Escambia County, Florida, on April 8, 2022, pleaded no contest to manslaughter with a firearm and was sentenced to 124.5 months in prison.

Ohlson lived with his parents on Princeton Drive in the Bellview area near Pensacola. His mother, Adrianna Ohlson, was 48, and his father, David Aaron Ohlson, who went by Aaron, was 43 at the time. His parents had separated about three weeks earlier. Ohlson had been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and an anxiety disorder.

At about 1 a.m., Ohlson shot his mother once in the abdomen with a shotgun inside the house while his father was there. According to the arrest report, he had taken the shotgun from a safe and put it in his car because he intended to shoot a friend of his mother's. He abandoned that plan, brought the gun inside and pointed it at his mother during an argument, then at himself. Ohlson said things calmed down and he unloaded the weapon, but he chambered a round and fired when his father arrived. Adrianna Ohlson died during surgery at a hospital.

His father called 911 and told deputies the shooting had been accidental. He said his wife had called him at about 12:30 a.m. to report that their son was acting out, then told him things had calmed down before he got home.

During an interview with Escambia County Sheriff's Office detectives, Ohlson admitted shooting his mother and described taking the shotgun from the safe and abandoning his plan to shoot her friend. He said his life had fallen apart when his parents separated. He also said that of all the people he had planned to shoot, he did not expect his mother to be one of them. His account, his father's 911 call and statements, the shotgun and the fatal abdominal wound formed the basis of the charge. Ohlson was arrested and held without bond.

Ohlson was charged with second-degree murder with a firearm and pleaded not guilty. His defense filed notice in May 2022 that it intended to raise an insanity defense. He signed a plea agreement on May 17, 2023, rather than face trial on the murder count, and pleaded no contest to one count of manslaughter with a firearm.

At sentencing on June 28, 2023, Pensacola psychologist Dr. Stephen Zieman testified that Ohlson had the most severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder he had encountered, along with lifelong ADHD and anxiety disorder. Zieman said the mental illness directly contributed to Ohlson's actions, but Ohlson did not meet the legal standard for insanity. His attorney argued that he needed medical care outside prison. Escambia County Circuit Judge John Simon imposed 124.5 months, just over ten years, in the Florida Department of Corrections, with credit for 446 days already served, followed by two years of community control and 15 years of probation. No appeal or later development has been publicly reported.

The roughly 35-minute video is a police interview-room recording of Ohlson's interview. It opens with a short narrated introduction naming the people involved, then presents the interview itself.