the commentary in that video is factually wrong on almost every point they make. not opinion, facts.
Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Dana Hathaway sentenced Theodore Wafer, 55, to a mandatory two years for felony firearm usage. After completing that sentence, he will serve concurrent sentences of 7 to 15 years for manslaughter and 15 to 30 years for second-degree murder.
That means a minimum of 17 years in prison, which is what prosecutors had asked for.
A civil settlement was reached Friday in the shooting death of Renisha McBride in Dearborn Heights, a case that generated national attention as a racially-charged killing.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Daniel Hathaway approved the settlement, which arose from a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of McBride, a 19-year-old African-American woman shot by Theodore Wafer, a 55-year-old white man, on his porch on Nov. 2, 2013. Wafer was convicted of second-degree murder in her shooting and is currently serving a sentence of least 17 years.
The amount of the settlement between the attorneys for McBride and Wafer was kept confidential, said the McBride family's attorney, Gerald Thurswell.
This situation is an eerie reminder of one that ended tragically in Dearborn Heights, Mich. back in 2013 and got national headlines, when a homeowner shot and killed a young black woman in the middle of the night after she knocked on his door.
It's not completely known why 19-year-old Renisha McBride knocked on Ted Wafer's door that night, though she had crashed her car a few blocks away. She had been drinking and was disoriented when she went up to his house, but she was not armed.
Wafer testified he grabbed his shotgun opened the door and fired his weapon at McBride because he feared she was an intruder and that he killed her in self-defense, but the jury did not agree.
He was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to at least 17 years in prison. Last year, he tried to get an appeal based on jury instructions but the Michigan Supreme Court denied that appeal in March.
Trial begins Monday for man charged with shooting at black teen who missed bus
Thanks for that info: I live in the metro Detroit area and followed the trial closely. I had no idea he had another hearing. He got what he deserved.![]()
17-year sentence sticks for man who killed woman on porch
A white Detroit-area man who said he feared for his life when he fatally shot a young Black woman on his porch in 2013 has been sentenced to the same 17-year prison term he initially receivedabcnews.go.com