Chicago man gets 70 years in bus shooting death

A Chicago man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison in the shooting death of a girl as she rode a Chicago Transit Authority bus in 2008.

The Chicago Tribune reports 27-year-old Milton Wardlaw was sentenced Thursday for first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Kiyanna Salter. Salter was a high school senior.

Salter and a friend were on a bus on Chicago’s South Side when Wardlaw exchanged words with another passenger. A surveillance video introduced at trial shows Wardlaw leaving the bus through the rear door and firing a shot that wounds Salter. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Wardlaw apologized to Salter’s family, saying that he was “deeply sorry” and that her death was an accident. Salter’s mother cried at the sentencing hearing.