JUST IN: Mohamed Noor, former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the fatal shooting of Justine Damond, sentenced to 12.5 years in prison.
of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The jury found the former police officer not guilty of the top charge of second-degree murder.
"Dear Justine: I miss you so much every day, every moment. I don’t understand how such a thing could happen to you, to us," he said. Don Damond's mother, Sharon Sebring, also read a statement that addressed to her son's slain partner. Plunkett said Noor, a Somali immigrant, gave up a successful business career to become a police officer as his way of giving back to the community.
“The law does not allow leniency because somebody is a good person,” the judge said. “Good people sometimes do bad things."Before Quaintance imposed sentence, Noor told court he could not be more sorry for what he did that night. Damond’s death sparked outrage in the U.S. and Australia, and her family had said they were struggling to understand how she could call police for help and end up being shot dead.
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