A man who had fled to the Mexican border after a northern New Jersey shooting in February 2013 has been sentenced.
Forty-year-old Karl Friday, of Denville, was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison for shooting the man in Newton and then assaulting a corrections officer.
Authorities say he broke into the home of his victim and fired a shot through a door with an assault rifle after the victim barricaded himself in a room with his girlfriend and two children.
Friday was apprehended two weeks later by Border Patrol agents at a Mexican border checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas.
The New Jersey Herald reports that his wife is being enrolled in a pretrial intervention program for helping him to flee.
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