DeMario Cordelius, 21, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of Javon Jackson last May. Cordelius pleaded guilty to the killing on March 2.
Jackson died May 10, after an altercation on Main Street near Lisbon Avenue hours after his graduation from UB.
Senior Erie County Judge Michael L. D'Amico today imposed the 25-year prison term that defense attorney John R. Nuchereno proposed.
D'Amico said the sentence "is what it is" and didn't comment further on what he called "this tragic event."
Christian T. Klenke's sentencing for supplying Cordelius with the handgun he used to kill Jackson has been pushed back to April 13, due to a controversy over the 15 years that homicide detectives want him to receive.
Klenke, 19, pleaded guilty in November to a felony weapons charge for providing the gun.
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