Man sentenced to 14 years for killing friend

A 28-year-old man who pleaded guilty last month to voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a friend at a Whitehall house said on Thursday that he was acting in self defense. "I didn't mean to take his life," Ra'Shaan K. Carter Johnson told a Franklin County judge, saying he fired at Robert L. McGowan III, 24, after McGowan rushed at him during an argument. "I really am sorry." But Assistant Prosecutor Scott Kirschman said that Johnson shot the unarmed victim five times, fled the house, h