BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana First ) — A Baton Rouge man who pleaded guilty in connection to a fatal accidental shooting in 2022 was sentenced Thursday.
Court records show Deangelo Coleman, 29, was sentenced to 30 months of hard labor with credit for time served on a negligent homicide charge. He had originally pleaded not guilty but withdrew his plea and pleaded guilty in October 2024.
According to a Baton Rouge Police Department report from May 2022, Coleman was playing with a handgun inside a home on St. Gerard Avenue when he accidentally fired a shot, striking Kendrick Wilson, 23, in the chest. Wilson did not survive…