DETROIT, MI (AP)-- Theodore Wafer says he will carry "guilt and sorrow forever" over the fatal shooting of Renisha McBride.
The 55-year-old suburban Detroit man apologized Wednesday before a Wayne County judge sentenced him to at least 17 years in prison for killing the unarmed 19-year-old after she pounded on his door before dawn one morning last November.
A jury last month rejected Wafer's self-defense claim and convicted him of second-degree murder.
McBride's sister Jasmine told Wafer she knows she will have to forgive him "somewhere down the line" but will never forget the heartache he has caused her family.
Wafer's lawyer says anything more than 10 years in prison is a "death sentence."
Judge Dana Hathaway described the case as "one life gone and one life ruined."
