A former Virginia police sergeant was sentenced to three years in prison on Friday after he fatally shot a man accused of stealing sunglasses from a shopping center.
Wesley Shifflett, 36, was convicted by a Northern Virginia jury in October of reckless handling of a firearm in the February 2023 shooting of Timothy McCree Johnson. In a split verdict, the jury acquitted Shifflett of involuntary manslaughter in Johnson’s killing.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
