Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin commuted the sentence of a former police officer Sunday who fatally shot a suspected thief in 2023. “I have today used the executive clemency authority granted to me by the Constitution of Virginia and commuted the sentence imposed on Sgt.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has granted clemency to a fired police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses.

Youngkin commuted the sentence Sunday night, writing that the three years of incarceration went beyond the state’s sentencing guidelines.