Here's sentencing this week of a Canadian shooting to kill an intruder in defence of property, accidentally killing his son.
"A Nova Scotia man convicted in the 2011 accidental shooting death of his 20-year-old son has been sentenced to four years in prison.
In sentencing Michael Paul Dockrill on Friday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Joshua Arnold said the man "fired blindly. That figure could have been anybody."
(Drug dealing at the house.)
"This is precisely why gun crimes in Canada are treated so seriously," he said, reading from his sentencing decision.
In April, a jury found Dockrill guilty of criminal negligence causing death and careless use of a firearm for shooting his son Jason in June 2011.
Dockrill and his son were trying to fend off a home invasion at their house in Lakeside when Michael Dockrill opened fire. He said he thought he was shooting at an intruder.
Arnold said Friday that when Dockrill shot at someone he was "wantonly reckless as to whether they died." Dockerill didn't know he had shot his son until he went outside.
Arnold described a parent killing his own child as "probably the very worst of tragedies."
