Plea Deal Rejected In Pastor Shooting

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A judge has rejected a guilty plea from a man charged with shooting a Connecticut church’s pastor after the suspect said he wasinnocent.
The Courant reports that 27-year-old Aaron Taylor pleaded guilty on Thursday to first-degree assault in connection with the non-fatal shooting in 2015 of theRev. Augustus Sealy, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Hartford.
In exchange for his plea, he faced nine years in prison.
Taylor pleaded guilty under the Alfo