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E. Patchogue man sentenced to 15 years in shooting

The shooter of a stray bullet that paralyzed a North Bellport boy was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison. Speaking in a near-whisper with his hands cuffed behind him, Mitchell Coffey, 21, of East Patchogue, said he was remorseful for hurting Jeffrey Langhorn Jr. "It was an accident," Coffey said. Suffolk County Court Judge James F.X. Doyle responded that having an illegal gun and shooting it...

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