Chicago man gets life in prison for fatal road rage shooting

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Chicago man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the highway shooting death of a Minnesota man in what authorities said was a road rage incident. Three months ago jurors found Jamal Smith, 34, guilty of three counts in the July 2021 death of 56-year-old Jay Boughton, of Crystal. Boughton was shot in the head as he drove his son home from a baseball game in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth.

Smith appeared virtually in a Hennepin County courtroom that was packed with Boughton’s family and supporters, who also filled an overflow observation room. District Judge Nicole Engisch handed down the mandatory life sentence for first-degree murder and also imposed concurrent sentences for second-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm.