Man sentenced in fatal church parking lot shooting
Ellicott City resident who was ‘playing around’ with gun gets 40 years in prison
Rane Dellinger, 21,
Howard County Circuit Court Judge Richard S. Bernhardt suspended all but 10 years of Dellinger’s sentence, which will be served in a Department of Corrections facility.
Dellinger also was sentenced to five additional years to be served consecutively for violating his probation from an earlier conviction.
Just before 10 p.m. June 1, Dellinger was in a parked car with two other people in the parking lot of the Bethel Baptist Church in Ellicott City.
Dellinger then fired a single shot that struck Jacob Mauer in the head, according to prosecutors.
Mauer, 20, of Ellicott City, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Dellinger fled and was