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Man Sentenced In Fatal Shooting Of Columbus Teen

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 17, 2016 at 6:04 AM EDT
Columbus Division of Police

A Columbus man will serve 20 years in prison for killing a friend last December. 19-year-old Malik Whatley claimed the shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Moore was accidential because he was playing with what he thought was an unloaded handgun. Whatley was sentenced on an involuntary manslaughter charge and for violating the terms of his probation.  Moore was killed in the basement of a Dellwood Avenue home.
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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