A convicted felon has been sentenced to four years and three months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Memphis police officer.
Lorenzo Clark was sentenced Friday in federal court in Memphis. He pleaded guilty in January to the weapons charge in connection with the shooting of 31-year-old officer Terence Olridge, a neighbor, on October 11.
Authorities said the men got into an argument as Olridge was on his way to work, and it escalated into an exchange of gunfire. Olridge, who was black, died at a hospital.
The 36-year-old Clark, who is also black, was not allowed to have a gun because he pleaded guilty in state court to reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon in a public place in March 2003.
