A widow on Friday told the New Castle County sentencing judge what the death of her husband had done to her family.
Then the Pennsylvania lawyer originally charged with killing him inside a Wilmington social club got up and said he was remorseful and wished he could change that night.
“I loved hanging out with him,” 58-year-old Paul M. Schofield Jr. said before being sentenced to one year of probation in connection with the assault of Ed Morris.
After his sentencing, Schofield and his supporters left the courtroom leaving behind Morris’ family and friends to console themselves.
“He’s already left the building,” one man was heard saying after Morris’ friends and family were allowed to leave the fourth-floor courtroom where the sentence took place.
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How a felony became a misdemeanor
Few details have been provided as to what led up to the fight between 53-year-old Morris and Schofield, a resident of Wilmington’s Forty Acres neighborhood who would bartend at Stapler Athletic Association — a social club at North Scott Street and Shallcross Avenue.