Man who fatally shot intoxicated firefighter resentenced in Oakland County

The sentence was handed down Monday to a Detroiter who fatally shot a drunken Rochester Hills firefighter after a site visitors accident 4 years in the past.

Terell Josey, 31, who served greater than three years in jail for the 2021 loss of life of Francis “Frank” Dombrowski, was granted a brand new trial on account of a trial courtroom error – as dominated by the Michigan Courtroom of Appeals. In October, he opted to not seem earlier than one other jury and pleaded no contest to a voluntary manslaughter cost; in trade for the plea, two firearms-related costs have been dismissed.

Josey was initially sentenced to 7 to 17 years in jail after an Oakland County jury convicted him in 2022. At Monday’s listening to, Oakland County Circuit Decide Daniel O’Brien sentenced him to 42 months to fifteen years in jail; jail sentence of 1,286 days was acknowledged.

The appeals courtroom overturned Josey’s convictions final April, ruling that the trial courtroom erred in denying Josey’s request to instruct the jury on self-defense as a protection to voluntary manslaughter, saying he was entitled to a brand new trial “with a correctly instructed jury.”

Jurors have been instructed about self-defense as a protection for homicide, however not for the lesser offense.

As beforehand reported, Josey killed Dombrowski exterior a gasoline station in Troy on July 5, 2021, the place they each ended up after a near-collision on Rochester Highway. Moments earlier, Josey and Dombrowski had exchanged a barrage of swear phrases as the 2 automobiles drove down the roadway. On the gasoline station, surveillance video offered to the jury confirmed Dombrowski shortly approaching Josey, the 2 struggled and Dombrowski was shot. He was pronounced lifeless a short while later at an space hospital.

Through the 2022 trial, Josey’s legal professional Marc Lakin had constructed a self-defense declare, with Dombrowski because the aggressor who reached for Josey’s gun. Dombrowski had a blood alcohol degree of 0.22 p.c and methadone in his system when he approached Josey, who fired his 9mm handgun at him thrice. Josey’s 2-year-old son and his then-fiancée have been within the Jeep on the time of the capturing.

Josey and his then-fiancée went to Troy police a number of hours after the capturing to report the incident, not figuring out on the time that Dombrowski was lifeless.