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

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.”

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has granted clemency to a fired police sergeant who shot and killed an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses

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.

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin commuted the sentence of a former police officer Sunday who fatally shot a suspected thief in 2023. “I have today used the executive clemency authority granted to me by the Constitution of Virginia and commuted the sentence imposed on Sgt.