SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A man who fatally shot an 18-year-old Navy sailor in East Village was sentenced Monday to 10 years in state prison.
Ta’Kari Terell Benness, 21, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and a gun allegation for the Aug. 31, 2024, killing of Albert Lee Soto, an operations specialist seaman apprentice who was assigned to the San Diego-based destroyer USS Pinckney. Soto, a native of Queens, New York, had reported to San Diego for military service in April of 2024, six months after enlisting, according to the Navy.
At Benness’ arraignment, a prosecutor said the shooting stemmed from a fight between two groups of people at a local nightclub, which spilled into an argument outside…