Daily News | Ex-Philly police officer sentenced to 11½ to 23 months in prison in landmark fatal shooting case
A former Philadelphia police officer was sentenced Thursday to 11½ to 23 months in prison for the 2017 fatal shooting of Dennis Plowden Jr.
But in sentencing him, Common Pleas Court Judge Barbara McDermott said that Ruch, 34, had demonstrated good behavior since he was charged two years and she believed a longer sentence would not offer him any rehabilitation. McDermott suggested she would have let Ruch walk out of court with no prison time would it not diminish the severity of the voluntary manslaughter charge, which can carry up to 20 years in prison.for fatal shooting and killing Plowden, a 25-year-old who was in the process of surrendering to officers following a high-speed car chase in the Ogontz neighborhood.
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