Peter Liang, the former NYPD officer who was convicted of killing Akai Gurley in East New York’s Pink Houses, was sentenced today to five years probation and 800 hours of community service for the shooting. A judge reduced Gurley’s charges just before sentencing him, throwing out his manslaughter conviction and replacing it with criminally negligent homicide and official misconduct.

Earlier month, attorneys for ex-NYPD cop Peter Liang, who, in February, was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Akai Gurley, filed a motion arguing that Juror No. 9, Michael Vargas, should not have been allowed on the panel. His estranged father, it turns out, served time for manslaughter. Vargas also made a number of anti-cop comments on Facebook.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Ken Thompson, is not seeking prison time for former New York City police officer Peter Liang, convicted of manslaughter last month in the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley, per sentencing recommendations submitted to the State Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Officer Peter Liang has been found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Akai Gurley. He has also been found guilty of official misconduct for not helping Gurley, 28, as he bled to death.

Rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang, who is charged with manslaughter and official misconduct in the November 2014 shooting death of Akai Gurley, testified in his own defense on Monday. “His eyes were rolled back,” Liang said of the mortally wounded Gurley. “He was just laying there very still.”

Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who is accused of shooting and killing Brooklyn resident Akai Gurley, “did nothing” to help Gurley after the shooting, a witness testified in court yesterday. Liang is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide and faces up to 15 years in prison.

Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who shot and killed Akai Gurley in a darkened housing project stairwell in 2014, is opting for a jury trial, DNAinfo is reporting. His trial is scheduled to begin January 21.

Peter Liang, the rookie NYPD officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in the stairwell of a Brooklyn housing project last year, has been indicted for the killing, according to sources who spoke with the New York Daily News and Pix11.

Peter Liang, the rookie Brooklyn cop who shot and killed unarmed black man Akai Gurley two weeks ago, was texting his union rep instead of calling for help as Gurley lay dying, the New York Daily News reports.