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Richard Allen Williams had been charged with attempted murder, but that charge was dropped by the Crown in exchange for a guilty plea to one count of reckless discharge of a firearm.
The 61-year-old was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Tuesday.
Court heard Williams and a friend, Darin Krawat, were out looking for another man, Clayton Hill, on Feb. 7, 2016. According to Crown prosecutor Chris Balison, the two entered Hill香蕉视频直播檚 house through an unlocked front door at about 6:30 p.m. that day, masked and armed with baseball bats, but he was not home.
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The two parties crossed paths in their vehicles on a rural road in Celista. Both stopped and a confrontation ensued.
Multiple gunshots were fired. Court heard Krawat was fatally wounded and Williams shot Hill in the neck.
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Williams, who has no prior criminal record, was arrested four days after the shootout and has been in custody since. With credit for time served, he will have nearly 20 months left to spend behind bars. Defence lawyer Jeremy Jensen said Williams, who was born in Nova Scotia, moved to B.C. in 2002.
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In addition to the jail time, Williams was also ordered to submit a sample of his DNA to a national criminal database and was given a 10-year firearms prohibition.
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