Nov. 26--A Hammond man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday for voluntary manslaughter after he admitted fatally shooting his 10-year-old son more than three years ago.
Jason DeGroot Sr., who pled guilty but mentally ill to the charge in September in exchange for dismissal of a murder charge, told Lake County, Ind., Judge Diane Ross Boswell: "I'm really not a monster. I don't know why, what happened that night."
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