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Man Who Fired At A Black Teenager Asking For Directions Sentenced To Four-To-10 Years In Prison

<p>&num;Roommates&comma; remember a few months ago we reported on a story about a man who shot at a Black teenage boy who was looking for directions on his way to school&quest; Well&comma; Jeffrey Zeigler was sentenced to four-to-10 years in prison for his careless&comma; and thoughtless actions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the Grio&comma; Jeffrey was found guilty by a grand jury for trying to harm Brennan Walker&comma; 14&period; All this was caught on camera&comma; and it is being reported that it seems as though Jeffrey was shooting to kill&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He has since apologized and said that he &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;felt extremely remorseful&period; I was&comma; I was just shocked&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What’s interesting about this is that a detective testified on Jeffrey’s behalf and said that his family had their house robbed three times between 2009 and 2010&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even though that may be have been true&comma; Assistant prosecutor Kelly Collins let it be known that this was not the case in this situation and that the teen escaped a mere fatal injury by just a few seconds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There were choices made and choices have consequences&comma;” she told the jury&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He told you of his past and his credentials and how he is an upstanding citizen and homeowner who was broken into before&&num;8230&semi; and how he felt he and his wife were in danger&period; He &lpar;Jeffrey&rpar; was the danger on April 12&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The teen&&num;8217&semi;s mom cried frequently throughout the trial when videos of that scary encounter were played for jurors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When I saw that video&comma; my thought process switched&&num;8230&semi;I knew which direction I<br &sol;>&NewLine;had to go&period; I was shocked&comma;” Detective Shawn Pace said in court&period; He said when he watched the footage a second time&comma; he could see that Jeffrey was getting &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;charged up&comma; because I was offended by what I had seen&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He took a big drink of water&comma; looked at me and said&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;I’m tired of being a victim&period;’ That was it&comma;” Shawn said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Well he definitely wasn’t the victim in this case&comma; and will have plenty of time to think about what he did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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