REAL SCOOP: Man gets 4 1/2 years in fatal shooting

A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a gang associate in Maple Ridge in 2016 has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail.
Deane Sahanovitch appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster March 2 to plead guilty to manslaughter for the slaying of Jonathen Patko, 32. A murder charge he was facing was dropped.
He was also handed a lifetime firearms prohibition.
Patko was found shot to death about 2 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2016 in the 24300-block of 102 A