A 20-year-old man today was sentenced to six years in prison for the fatal shooting of his father.
In June, Jerome Edward Thompson, Jr., pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter, shooting or stabbing in commission of a felony, and grand larceny of a firearm.
The charges stem from an August 2023 incident when law enforcement responded to a shooting outside an Ashburn apartment building. Jerome Edward Thompson, Sr.,50, was pronounced dead at the scene. A Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office sergeant testified at an earlier hearing that Thompson Jr. admitted to shooting his father on the scene…