NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A New Haven man who’d been acquitted of a murder charge in a friend’s shooting death gets 14 years in prison for manslaughter and gun offenses.
A New Haven Superior Court judge sentenced Vincent Cornelius on Friday, saying the 23-year-old man’s claims of remorse were not credible.
Cornelius was convicted by a jury in October of manslaughter and carrying a pistol without a permit, but acquitted of a murder charge.
He’d been accused in the 2006 death of 21-year-old Kendraya Glasper, who died after Cornelius fired a revolver twice outside the car in which she sat.
Prosecutors say Cornelius gave varying stories about how it occurred, including that the gun discharged after his baggy pants started to slip.
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Information from: The New Haven Register, www.nhregister.com
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