A 34-year-old man who fatally shot a person outside a Tacoma apartment complex was sentenced Friday to two years, nine months in prison.
Christopher Jadwick Lynch pleaded guilty in August to second-degree manslaughter with a deadly weapon, admitting to causing 41-year-old Dennis Parker’s death with criminal negligence. Lynch’s guilty-plea statement said he was only pleading guilty to take advantage of a plea agreement. Lynch had previously asserted that he acted in self-defense.
Tacoma police detectives said the shooting appeared to be unprovoked. Surveillance video of the incident allegedly showed Lynch coming out of a stairwell to his girlfriend’s apartment and approaching Parker on a sidewalk…