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"A Hamilton County man will spend more than a decade in prison for killing a LaSalle High School student.Lee read from a prepared statement , first telling his mother he was sorry.\u201C I want to apologize to the rest of my family. You all wanted better for me. I\u2019m sorry to let you down,\u201D he said.\u00A0Watch this storyJustin Brown, 17, was shot to death after Dierres Lee, 19, opened fire on the car in which Brown was a passenger in March 2013.Investigators said last year that Brown and three teens drove to North Fairmount, where they tried to pay Lee for marijuana with fake money.\u201CI want to apologize to the family of Justin Brown I had no intention of hurting anyone,\u201D Lee said.\u00A0Brown's mother spoke publicly about her son's death. She didn't want to appear on camera but spoke directly to Lee.\"I hope you take every minute that you spend in prison and think about the life you so carelessly took, and I hope you know you destroyed our family,\" Joanne Brown said.Lee pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and a weapons violation on Tuesday. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.He was given credit for a little more than a year of time served so far.The victim\u2019s family said they are serving a different kind of sentence.\u201CThere will never be another normal day as we know it but we can only hope and pray that someday we will see Justin again in a safe violent free world in his heaven,\u201C Brown said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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