GRAND MARAIS, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota man will serve more than 12 years in prison for shooting another man to death during an annual holiday party for employees nearly two years ago.
Sixty-three-year-old Kirk Bigby, of the town of Finland, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in May to second-degree unintentional murder.
Bigby worked at the Bluefin Bay Resort in Tofte, a popular resort on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Authorities say he shot and killed 35-year-old blackjack dealer Marcus Roberts, of Bloomington, outside the resort restaurant where the party was held in December 2015.
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Bigby at one point had maintained that he acted in self-defense. WDIO-TV reports under a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a second-degree intentional murder charge.
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Information from: WDIO-TV, https://www.wdio.com
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