MICHAEL DUNN SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE FOR KILLING OF FLORIDA TEENAGER (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Friday, October 17, 2014, 18:26

Michael Dunn returns to his seat after reading his statement, which included an apology to the Davis family, during his sentencing hearing. Photograph: Bruce Lipsky/AP

The man convicted of shooting dead a Florida teenager in a dispute over loud rap music has been given the maximum possible sentence of life in prison without parole plus 90 years.

Michael Dunn’s sentence was handed down after Lucia McBath, mother of 17-year-old Jordan Davis, broke down in the courtroom on Friday, telling her son’s killer through tears that she forgave him.

Dunn, who was convicted of murder earlier this month, sat impassively as McBath spoke of the devastation she felt at losing her only child in the November 2012 shooting at a Jacksonville gas station.

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