Pasco teen gets life for fatally shooting ex-girlfriend's father

LARGO, FLORIDA - A teen received a life sentence for the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend&#39;s father after a jury rejected his claim that it was an accident. <br> <br> A Circuit Court jury convicted 18-year-old William Scott Lang of first-degree murder Wedsnesday, rejecting his statement to detectives that he accidentally shot Richard Hosking and had intended to kill himself. <br> <br> Hosking, the assistant director of the Pasco County Health Department, was killed May 22, 2001. <br> <br> Immediately after the jury&#39;s verdict, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Richard Luce immediately sentenced Lang to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Lang was captured in Statesboro, Georgia, several days after the slaying. <br> <br> Lang still faces two charges of solicitation to commit murder after allegedly trying to arrange from jail the killing of Hosking&#39;s wife and daughter, whom he held hostage after the killing before he fled to Georgia. Lang&#39;s attorney, Jim Martin, told the judge that Lang may plead guilty to those charges September 9.

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