A Palmetto man will spend the next three decades in state prison after a jury found he shot and killed an 18-year-old at a graduation party, a judge ruled Wednesday.
A Manatee County judge sentenced 23-year-old Jose Alfredo Gomez to 30 years in prison for aggravated battery with great bodily harm with a firearm in a case where prosecutors said he fatally shot Fernando Garcia-Nunez during a fight at a Palmetto nightclub.
Circuit Judge Frederick Mercurio sentenced Gomez on the aggravated battery conviction and did not impose a separate sentence on a manslaughter count tied to the same shooting, citing double jeopardy rules that limit multiple punishments for a single fatal act…