Gardiner man to learn his fate on manslaughter charge
Published: May 6, 2019 at 8:22 AM EDT
A man who shot and killed a man outside his West Gardiner house in 2017 is scheduled for sentencing today.
Derrick Dupont pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop a murder charge.
James haskell was shot and killed outside of Dupont's home in June of 2017.
A court filing for the defense suggests Haskell was trespassing and threatening the occupants of the home before he was shot three times.
He was dead when police arrived.
