PITTSBURGH (AP) - A western Pennsylvania man says he wasn’t in his “right mind” when he shot and killed another man at a Mother’s Day party in Pittsburgh almost two years ago.
Twenty-one-year-old Brett Terry was sentenced Wednesday in Allegheny County to 7½ to 15 years in prison in the May 2015 shooting death of 26-year-old Jamar Thomas in the East Liberty neighborhood.
He pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and other charges after he was deemed competent for trial following a stay at Torrance State Hospital.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that he read a statement to the family saying that he has been diagnosed as schizophrenic and bipolar.
He said “If I were to get a chance to replay that day in my normal state of mind, none of that would have happened.”
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