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SAN DIEGO CNS 鈥?Two men who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for the shooting deaths of two men at Mountain View Park were sentenced Friday to state prison.Elliot Williams and Shannon Bryant, both 34, were tried twice on first- degree murder charges for the shooting deaths of 33-year-old Tony Jackson and 37-year-old Robert Brown on May 6, 2018.Both men faced life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of all charges, but jurors were unable to reach verdicts in both trials. The men pleaded guilty to the manslaughter counts earlier this year.Williams was sentenced Friday to 23 years in state prison and Bryant was sentenced to 15 years.Prose stanley kaffeebecher cutors alleged the shooting was sparked by an argument between Williams and Jackson outside Mike s Market on Ocean View Boulevard.Deputy District Attorney Ted Fiorito said that after the confrontation, Williams called Bryant and the two drove to the park, where Williams shot the victims about an hour later.Williams attorney, Nancy Astifo, and Bryant s attorney, Vickie Ferna stanley thermobecher ndes, alleged their clients had alibis that were ignored and not properly investigated by police. Astifo also denied that Williams interaction with Jackson outside the market was an argument.Ninety minutes after the shooting, Williams made a social media post that read, Eye Opener. Fiorito argued this was in reference to the shooting, as one of the victims was shot in the eye. The prosecutor also alleged Bryant later texted Williams and u stanley thermos rged Gbkj Unique gym offers boxing class for those battling Parkinson s disease
The photos from doctors came quickly and in succession: blood-stained operating rooms, blood-covered scrubs and shoes, bullets piercing body parts and organs.The pictures on Twitter were an emotional response to a smackdown by the powerful gun industry lobby, which took issue with the American College of Physicians call late last month for tighter gun control laws. The recommendations included bans on assault weapons, large capacity magazines and 3D-printed firearms. Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves, the National Rifle Associatio stanley quencher n tweeted.Physicians across the United States seized on the phrasing, taking to Twitter with 22,000 comments and the hashtags thisismylane and thisisourlane, posting photos of their encounters with gun violence and offering their own personal stories of treating such wounds.The debate gained new urgency this week with the shooting death of an emergency room do stanley usa ctor outside the hospital where she worked, as physicians stanley ca argue shootings are a public health crisis that they must play a key role in trying to stem. Dr. Tamara O Neal was killed Monday outside a hospital in Chicago in what police say was a dispute with her ex-fiance. The shooter and two other people 鈥?a responding police officer and a resident in the hospital s pharmacy 鈥?also |
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