— The man convicted of manslaughter in the 2016 road rage shooting death of former CFL and NFL running back Joe McKnight was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday. Witnesses at the trial said McKnight had been weaving in and out of traffic at high speed before the shooting. Shute acknowledged that McKnight had a hand on the open, passenger side window of Gasser’s car before he was shot. Defence attorney Matthew Goetz, who is appealing the verdict, had argued for a lenient sentence, noting Gasser’s lack of a criminal record. The case in some ways echoed another New Orleans-area road rage shooting from 2016.

Source: National Post March 15, 2018 17:26 UTC