A Chicago man was sentenced to the mandatory life in prison Tuesday for the highway shooting death of a Minnesota man in what authorities said was a road rage incident.
Jamal Smith was earlier convicted in the July 2021 death of 56-year-old Jay Boughton, of Crystal.
Boughton was shot in the head as he drove his teenage son home from a baseball game in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth.
Smith appeared virtually in a Hennepin County courtroom that was packed with Boughton’s family and supporters, who also filled an overflow observation room.
The automatic life sentence comes with the possibility of parole after 30 years.
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