A Bradenton man will spend more than a decade in prison after investigators said he fatally shot his friend while handling a handgun inside a vehicle.
A Manatee County judge sentenced Jabarre Burney, 19, to more than 10 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to manslaughter by culpable negligence with a firearm in the shooting death of 18-year-old Reginald Fields, court records show. Circuit Judge Matt Whyte also ordered Burney to serve five years of supervised probation after his prison term.
The sentence will run at the same time as Burney’s conviction in a separate firearm case that closed in November, according to court records…