Georgia Man Guilty of Manslaughter in Shooting of Teen Girl

Georgia Man Guilty of Manslaughter in Shooting of Teen Girl
Marc Wilson. Bulloch County Sheriff's Office via AP
The Associated Press
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STATESBORO, Ga.—A man who says he was fending off an attack on a Georgia highway when he fired a gun into a pickup truck was convicted Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter for fatally shooting a 17-year-old girl in the truck’s back seat.

The trial jury spared 23-year-old Marc Wilson from a potential life prison sentence by acquitting him of felony murder, the charge prosecutors argued he deserved for killing Haley Hutcheson of Reidsville.