Charlie Tan, the Pittsford man convicted of gun-related crimes after the shooting death of his father in 2015 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Frederick Scullin handed down that sentence in a Syracuse courtroom on Monday.
Tan's murder trial ended in a mistrial in October 2015 when jurors failed to reach a verdict. A judge dismissed those charges after ruling there was no evidence he used the shotgun that killed his father.
Tan then pleaded guilty in June to three gun charges, including having another student buy the shotgun at a Walmart. Tan was a 19-year-old student at Cornell University when Liang “Jim” Tan was killed in the family's Pittsford home in February 2015.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Fletcher says Charlie Tan still has not admitted he committed the actual murder.
“He still has not come out publicly and said, ‘I pulled the trigger.' He's gotten all the way up to that point at his plea and in his sentencing submissions, but he will never and has never said what happened in that hallway, and in that room that night, when the evidence is clear and there’s no reason for him to not say it at this point, he cannot be retried for murder," Fletcher told reporters.
Fletcher says Tan, who is a Canadian citizen, will face immigration proceedings after his sentence is complete.
Tan's lawyers will appeal the sentence.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
