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Submitted by the Niagara County District Attorney’s Office
Niagara County District Attorney Brian D. Seaman announced Dennis D. Parson, age 20, of Buffalo, was sentenced this morning in County Court to 22 years in State Prison, followed by five years post-release supervision. Parson previously plead guilty to manslaughter in the first degree and admitted to shooting and killing 24-year-old Jaylan McWilson on Jan. 21, 2023, in front of McWilson’s home in Niagara Falls.
Seaman said, “The McWilson family has irretrievably lost their son Jaylan, and a 20-year-old young man will spend the next 20 years of his life in prison, and there is no reason for either. There was no good reason for the defendant to be carrying an illegal handgun, and there was no good reason for him to fire it. Part of the depth the tragedy in this case is that it was so avoidable.”
The case was investigated by the Niagara Falls Police Department and prosecuted by Seaman himself and First Assistant District Attorney Doreen Hoffmann.
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