A twenty-eight-year-old Guyanese man was sentenced to 45 years in jail on Friday for killing a fellow Guyanese in Connecticut, according to Republican-American.
A jury convicted Parasurama Rabindranauth of murder in January, returning the verdict in about an hour and a half. Although he has contended the killing was in self-defence, Rabindranauth said on Friday in Waterbury Superior Court that the shooting was his fault and he was sorry for what he did.
“If I could take it back, I would take my own life,” he said in a calm, soft-spoken voice.
At the heart of the confrontation that led to the death of 38-year-old Michael Sembhudyal appeared to be a heated exchange between Sembhudyal and Rabindranauth that occurred in the hours before the 2009 shooting.
Republican-American said that the sentence prompted his mother to launch into a tirade aimed at the victim’s family.
