Jesse Porter, a former D.C. police lieutenant, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and unlawful discharge of a firearm in the fatal shooting of a library officer during a training exercise at the Anacostia Neighborhood Library.
Jesse Porter, 58, faces a maximum of 30 years in prison in the Aug. 4 shooting death of 25-year-old library officer Maurica Manyan.
Authorities have alleged previously that Porter shot Manyan during an incident that witnesses described as a possible joke that went awry. The retired D.C. police lieutenant, who online records show runs a training company called Porter Consulting and Expert Tactical Training, had been contracted by the library to train its officers on using handcuffs and batons.
It was an emotional sentencing as members of Manyan’s family objected to the plea offer and alleged in a lengthy letter to D.C. Superior Court Judge Anthony Epstein that the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case, Andrea Coronado, “repeatedly failed to inform and show respect or empathy” to the family during her handling of the case.“Ms. Coronado neglected to greet or meet with the family. Our family was not involved or informed during these plea talks.
Coronado declined to comment on the family’s allegations saying that the family also sent a similar letter to her supervisors in the U.S. attorney’s office. One of Coronado’s supervisors, veteran homicide prosecutor Sharon Donovan who was seated next to Coronado at the hearing, said the office “disagreed” with the family’s allegations. She said Coronado had been in communication with the family and that Coronado has “acted ethically.
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