Theodore Wafer was sentenced to 17 years in prison for fatally shooting Renisha McBride, who once attended Southfield High.
McBride died November 2, 2013, in a case that drew national attention.
Wafer was prosecuted on charges of manslaughter, felony weapon, and second-degree murder.
“This is one of the saddest cases,” Wayne County Circuit Judge Dana Hathaway told Fox News after she sentenced Wafer.
The case has been compared to the Michael Brown murder in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Trayvon Martin murder in Sanford, Florida, because all three cases have two things in common: The victims are African American teens and the killers aren’t.
In the McBride case, Wafer testified that he felt endangered in his own home. McBride was yelling for help on his front porch at around 4 a.m. after her car crashed. He responded by shooting her.