Sentencing for Connecticut man convicted of fatally shooting friend
NEW BRITAIN — A Connecticut man convicted of killing his 16-year-old friend faces sentencing on Thursday.
Noah Hendron, 20, is scheduled to be sentenced in New Britain Superior Court for the November 2017 killing of 16-year-old Vincent Basile in a Wethersfield home.
Hendron was convicted in November of first-degree manslaughter, but acquitted of murder.
Prosecutors argued Hendron intentionally shot and killed Basile because he had repeatedly loaded and unloaded the gun and pointed it at Basile's face.
They say Hendron, who was 18 at the time, also attempted to cover up the shooting by throwing the .38-caliber revolver in a storm drain and fleeing the scene.
The defense said the shooting was an accident.
Hendron's lawyer argued his client was guilty of negligence or recklessness, but not murder.
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