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New Hampshire man could be out of jail in 15 years for gunning down Boston resident near South Station
By adamg on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 5:34pm
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Sean Evelyn, 23, guilty of second degree murder for the New Year's Eve, 2006 death of Cushings Fortuna outside South Station, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Prosecutors, who sought a first-degree conviction, say the two men briefly tangled inside the train station and that Evelyn then went outside and got a Glock .40 semiautomatic gun out of his Mercedes. Evelyn shot at Fortuna twice on Atlantic Avenue and when he realized he'd missed, fired another five rounds at South and Beach streets - this time hitting Fortuna three times.
The jury found him guilty of illegal possession of the Glock, but found him not guilty on a charge of possession of crack.
Evelyn will be sentenced on July 13; he faces a mandatory life term with the possibility of parole after 15 years.
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I'll never understand why
I'll never understand why some drug convictions will carry 30 years, but this guy will be out in 15.
how about rehabilitation for drug addicts and pusher, and sending these reckless aholes away for life?
What is your source for this report?
From where did you derive your summary? What you report is inadequate and misrepresents the facts of the case. Anyone attending the trial could tell you that after the "brief tangle" inside the station, Fortuna assaulted Evelyn, holding him by the neck up against an SUV, cursing and spitting on him, kneeing him in the groin and chest for about ten minutes. Obviously not justification for Evelyn to kill him, but a very different and more complicated story than your report conveys. And what is your rationale for reporting the verdict the prosecutors sought but not mentioning the verdict sought by the defense counsel? It was Manslaughter; he argued that Evelyn was provoked by the assault. Your kind of reductionism, based on selective reporting, is poor journalism. It encourages your readers to surrender to the destructive belief that life is simpler and ethical questions more black-and-white than they really are.
My source
Was a press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
Yes, you are right, the issue is more complex than what I wrote, and I should be more careful in cases where the jury rejects the prosecution's charge in a capital case.
But having said that, let's also recognize that the jury also rejected the defense's argument - they returned a verdict of second-degree murder, not manslaughter. And let's also recognize that a man died of multiple gunshot wounds that night - fired from more than one location by another man who had a loaded gun hidden in his car.
Yes, fair enough. The whole
Yes, fair enough. The whole thing was sad and deeply troubling, and the killing, even if provoked, was truly horrendous.
So when's Pring-Wilson getting out?
What did he get for his manslaughter conviction? I think it was only 5 years or so.
Pring-Wilson's victim, of course, remains as dead as the victim in this case.
I guess the common message of both cases is that carrying a deadly weapon around is seldom a good idea. This isn't the Old West.