Wealthy insurance executive Robert Bates faces up to four years in prison for killing of Eric Harris,who Bates shot after mistaking his own handgun for TaserA former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff’s deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year was convicted of moment-degree manslaughter on Wednesday.Jurors handed down the verdict in the case of 74-year-old Robert Bates, a wealthy insurance executive accused of fatally shooting Eric Harris while working with Tulsa County sheriff’s deputies last year during an illegal gun sales sting. Harris, and who had race from deputies,was restrained and unarmed when he was shot.
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Source: theguardian.com