KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) - A northwestern Montana man who claimed self-defense in a fatal shooting has reached a plea agreement on a lesser charge.
The Daily Inter Lake reports 48-year-old James William Quen of Martin City has agreed to plead guilty Friday to negligent homicide in exchange for a recommended 10-year suspended prison sentence. Quen was initially charged with deliberate homicide in the April 25 shooting death of 33-year-old Bradley Allen Winters in Hungry Horse.
Court records say there had been an altercation over money and clothing inside Winters’ residence and at some point Quen fired a gun several times, hitting Winters in the chest.
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If District Judge Heidi Ulbricht rejects the sentencing recommendation, Quen would be allowed to withdraw his plea.
Quen’s trial had been scheduled to begin in Jan. 7.
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Information from: Daily Inter Lake, http://www.dailyinterlake.com
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