Ulrich Sentenced To Life In Prison In Fatal Buffalo Clinic Shooting

WRIGHT COUNTY, MN — Gregory Ulrich was sentenced Friday to serve the rest of his life in prison after he was convicted earlier this month of a slew of felonies related to a fatal mass shooting at an Allina Health clinic in Buffalo last year.

Ulrich will also have no chance at parole due to his conviction on a first-degree murder charge, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

Though Friday’s sentencing hearing was a formality due to that mandatory sentence, a Wright County judge held the hearing to give survivors an opportunity to deliver victim-impact statements, MPR News reported.

But no survivors or family members spoke during the sentencing hearing Friday because they “didn’t want to give (Ulrich) the attention,” Wright County Attorney Brian Lutes said.

Ulrich was convicted June 2 of first-degree premeditated murder in the death of 37-year-old medical assistant Lindsay Overbay. He was also convicted of four attempted murder charges after shooting four others who survived the attack on the clinic Feb. 9, 2021.

Police said Ulrich walked into the Buffalo clinic that morning and started shooting. He killed Overbay and seriously injured four others, while also setting off two explosive devices in the clinic before surrendering, police said.

Overbay was devoted to her two kids — a friend told KARE 11 that she "absolutely lived and breathed for her children."

She "lived her life to the fullest" when she was with her kids, according to her obituary.

"What gave Lindsay the most joy in life was spending time with her family, and every moment she shared with her children," Overbay's family wrote in her obituary.

Ulrich was also sentenced Friday to serve an additional 72 years in prison for the attempted first-degree premeditated murders of four clinic workers who survived the attack, according to Wright County officials.

Ulrich’s deadly “twisted” attack brought “an element of evil” to the Buffalo clinic and “shattered” the lives of victims and their families, Lutes said during the sentencing hearing.

The mass shooting was a “cowardly attack,” and “only a coward” would shoot innocent people as they were helpless on the ground, Lutes said while looking at Ulrich, as seen in a courtroom video from KSTP.

Ulrich also spoke during his sentencing, claiming the fatal shooting “could have been avoided,” the video shows. Ulrich claimed throughout the investigation and trial that he suffered from excruciating pain that staff at the Allina clinic did not properly manage, KARE11 reported.

He reiterated that point during the sentencing hearing, in which he also said “I’m not ashamed of anything, and I’m not a coward.”

The courtroom — which held more than 50 people for the hearing — broke into applause when Ulrich as officially sentenced to serve the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, Wright County officials said in a news release. Lutes said it was the first time in his career that he’s witnessed applause after a sentence was handed down.

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