Source: Kevin McGill, The Associated Press, March 15, 2018
Ronald Gasser fatally shot Joe McKnight in New Orleans in 2016
The man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 road rage shooting death of CFL and NFL running back Joe McKnight was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday.
Ronald Gasser, 56, had faced up to 40 years in prison. Defence lawyers argued that Gasser fired in self-defence when McKnight walked up to his car following an eight-kilometre confrontation that began on a bridge spanning the Mississippi River in New Orleans and ended with gunfire in neighbouring Jefferson Parish.
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