WICHITA, Kan. — A Wichita man has been sentenced to 27.5 years in jail for a taking pictures at a celebration that left a South Carolina airman useless and three folks injured.
Markeithen “Pink” McClaine, 28, was sentenced Thursday within the July 27, 2019, demise of 20-year-old Airman 1st Class Chancelor Williams, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, who was stationed at McConnell Air Pressure Base, The Wichita Eagle reported.
McClaine pleaded responsible in February to second-degree homicide and three counts of tried second-degree homicide.
Williams, an plane gas programs journeyman with the twenty second Upkeep Squadron, died after he was shot within the car parking zone of Horizons East Residences, stated Wichita Police Officer Kevin Wheeler in a information launch on the time.
Emergency crews had been referred to as to the house complicated at round 2:05 a.m. after a 911 caller reported a number of pictures had been fired. Police discovered Williams unresponsive within the car parking zone, and he was pronounced useless on the scene. Two different males, ages 21 and 22, and a 19-year-old girl had been additionally shot and brought to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
Police stated a crowd had gathered on the house complicated forward of an upcoming deployment. McClaine fired at the very least six pictures after the automobile he was in was surrounded by party-goers, who ultimately let the automobile drive away.
Col. Richard Tanner, commander of the twenty second Air Refueling Wing, stated in an announcement shortly after Williams’ demise that the bottom was “deeply saddened by the lack of one in every of our airmen.”
“We come collectively as a group to help our households and all these affected by this tragic incident,” Tanner stated.
