Alabama cop gets 25 years in prison for shooting and killing suicidal man who called for help

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A former Alabama police officer was convicted in May for murdering a suicidal man who called 9-11 asking for help has been sentenced to a lengthy prison sentence, The New York Times reports.

William Benjamin Darby, 28, was sentenced this Friday for the murder of Jeffrey Louis Parker, 49.

“At every turn, Mr. Darby refused to take any responsibility for what he did, and he would never admit that he did anything wrong,” Madison County chief deputy district attorney Tim Gann said Friday. “There was no remorse from him about the killing. There was no acknowledgment from him about the gravity of what he did. That was one of the most disturbing things about the case.”

“My brother would be alive today, I certainly believe that, if Pegues had stayed there and Darby never showed up,” the victim’s brother Bill Parker said on Friday, according to WAAY in Huntsville. Parker was referring to Officer Genisha Pegues, who tried to keep his brother alive by deescalating the situation before Darby arrived.

Speaking before the court on Friday, Darby said he’s haunted by Parker’s killing and sometimes wakes up in the night seeing the dead man’s face.

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