THAT’S WHAT CONVICTED MURDERER NICHOLAS GIANQUITTI is looking at after today’s sentencing hearing. The former police officer was convicted in April of killing his next-door neighbor, Cranston, Rhode Island, Fire Lieutenant James Pagano in May of 2008. The judge sentenced him to 40 years with 20 to serve for the 2nd-degree murder conviction. He then imposed a mandated life sentence for using a firearm while committing a violent crime. It will be 34 years before Gianquitti will be able to apply for parole and he will be age 75 then.
The two men squabbled over a tennis ball that had bounced off of Gianquitti’s car while a group of children were in the yard enjoying a birthday party for one of Pagano’s children. The argument escalated and Gianquitti took out a pistol and shot Pagano dead on the front lawn.
WPRI-TV has a report on today’s sentencing and an interview with Lt. Pagano’s widow:
Firegeezer has been following the story from the beginning.
Our reports on the murder are HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Our stories with several videos on the trial are HERE, HERE, and HERE.
The story on the jury’s verdict is HERE.
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