Man gets 75 years in slaying of man trying citizen’s arrest

A former Army soldier was sentenced to 75 years in prison in the fatal shooting of a bystander who tried to make a citizen’s arrest in a Dallas-area parking lot after the serviceman shot and wounded his wife.

A judge in Fort Worth sentenced 24-year-old Ricci Bradden on Thursday. A day earlier, the judge found Bradden guilty of murder in the 2016 death of 35-year-old Anthony “T.J.” Antell. Bradden was also found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Police have said Antell, a former Marine, saw Bradden shoot at his wife’s feet during an argument outside of a Walgreens, striking her once. Police have said Antell then retrieved a handgun from his vehicle and confronted Bradden, but Bradden slapped it away and fatally shot Antell.

Bradden claimed self-defense.