An elderly western Pennsylvania funeral director has been sentenced to six to 12 years in the shooting death of a contractor a year ago.
WTAE-TV reports that 90-year-old William Welsh of Homestead apologized in Allegheny County Court on Thursday for the pain he had caused to the victim's family and his own.
Welsh was convicted by a judge of third-degree murder in April in the July 2013 shooting death of 58-year-old William Menni outside the funeral home owned by the defendant's family. Authorities said the two had argued about the demolition of a nearby vacant home.
Defense attorney Frank Walker had argued that his client acted in self-defense. He said after the trial that any term for a 90-year-old man "is a life sentence.''
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