BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore jury has found a federal officer guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of his half-brother, which the officer says was accidental.

Prosecutors said Curtis Anthony Warren, an Iraq war veteran who worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs, deliberately shot Curtis Anthony Pounds in April 2009 during an argument in the basement at Warren’s Northeast Baltimore property, where Pounds rented a room.

Warren was charged with first-degree murder. But after deliberating for 11 hours, the jury returned a guilty verdict Tuesday on charges of voluntary manslaughter and use of a handgun in a crime of violence. He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a minimum of five years without parole when he’s sentenced in March.

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