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AUBURN, Maine (AP) A Maine man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a Massachusetts resident in an Auburn fast-food parking lot was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday.
Police initially charged Trai Larue, of Lewiston, with murder stemming from 21-year-old Roger Cornell’s 2020 death. Cornell, of New Bedford, was found injured in the parking lot and later died at a hospital.
Larue was sentenced in Androscoggin County. Some of his sentence will be suspended, WCSH-TV reported.
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