Man gets prison term for shooting friend
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Published: December 23, 2009
BRENTWOOD, N.H. — A man who shot a friend in the back of the head as they sat in a parked SUV is going to prison for manslaughter.
Twenty-year-old Adam Mentus, of Danville, was sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison Monday for the 2008 slaying of Deidre Budzyna.
The 20-year-old Atkinson woman, who was sitting in the driver's seat when it happened, died June 26, 2008 in Sandown.
Mentus' lawyers claimed the shooting was an accident caused by a cheap .380-caliber handgun.
Mentus, who was convicted in October, will serve his sentence in New Hampshire State Prison.
— Staff and wire reports
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