RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has granted clemency to a former police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses.

A former Virginia officer who fatally shot a Black man accused of stealing sunglasses has been granted clemency.

Governor Glenn Youngkin has commuted the sentence of a former Virginia police sergeant, stating that the court’s sentence is “unjust and violates the cornerstone of our justice system.”

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

A former Fairfax County police officer was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for killing a man in 2023. The governor ordered he be released.

Former Sgt. Wesley Shifflett was sentenced to three years in prison on a conviction of recklessly discharging a firearm in the February 2023 shooting death of an unarmed shoplifting suspect.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin commuted the sentence for a former Fairfax County sergeant after he was sentenced to 3 years in prison on Friday for fatally shooting a man who was allegedly shoplifting. Former Fairfax County Police Department Sgt.