An Oregon man who fatally shot a sheriff's deputy in southwest Washington has been sentenced to life in prison. The Columbian reports 28-year-old Guillermo Raya Leon of Salem was sentenced Thursday in
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Jill Brown in court said the sentencing doesn’t give closure to her husband’s death but she considered it an “appropriate acknowledgement” of what happened, Oregon Public Broadcasting Raya Leon claimed self-defense in the shooting and his lawyer during trial argued Raya Leon did not intend to shoot the detective, only to confirm Brown was watching them.
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