Wesley Shifflett, 36, was convicted by a northern Virginia jury in October of reckless handling of a firearm in connection to the February 2023 shooting of Timothy McCree Johnson.

A former Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison after he fatally shot a man accused of shoplifting outside Tysons Corner Center in 2023.

The officer was convicted of recklessly handling a firearm — but acquitted of involuntary manslaughter — in the incident in which he fatally shot a shoplifter.