Friday, Dec. 11, 2015 | 9:14 a.m.
A 56-year-old former Las Vegas convenience store clerk has been sentenced to four to 12 years in state prison for shooting a man in the back of the head when he tried to steal a case of beer in 2014.
Mariano Tejeda-Zuniga was sentenced Thursday after he was found guilty at trial in October of battery with a deadly weapon and possession of a stolen gun.
The jury acquitted Tejeda-Zuniga of attempted murder.
A friend drove the alleged beer thief, Kallum Smith, to a hospital and he survived with a wound that struck behind his ear and exited his face.
Tejeda-Zuniga called the shooting an accident. He maintained that the gun fired when he put a bullet in the chamber.
Police reported confiscating a .45-caliber handgun and store security video.
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