Expand / Collapse search
Watch TV
Menu

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2023 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper.

U.S.
Published

First Police Officer Convicted of Covering Up Katrina Shooting to be Sentenced

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge is prepared to sentence one of five former police officers who pleaded guilty to helping cover up deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.

Federal prosecutors are urging U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to be lenient when he sentences Ignatius Hills on Wednesday for participating in a cover-up of the Danziger Bridge shootings, which killed two people and wounded four others less than a week after the 2005 storm.

Prosecutors recommend a four-year prison sentence for Hills. Sentencing guidelines call for a term of up to seven years and three months.

Earlier Wednesday, a different judge is scheduled to hear prosecutors' request to reduce an eight-year prison sentence for Michael Hunter, a former officer who also pleaded guilty in the cover-up.