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Buffalo man pleads guilty to manslaughter in fatal shooting

Daryl Bland

OBSERVER Staff Report

Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn has announced that 23-year-old Daryl Bland of Buffalo pleaded guilty before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth F. Case to first-degree manslaughter.

On Oct. 26, 2016 at about 12:50 a.m., Bland fatally shot 31-year-old Dustin Sharp on Route 438 in the town of Collins on the Cattaraugus Reservation.

Bland faces a maximum of 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on Tuesday, May 8 at 9:30 a.m.

Flynn commended the New York State Police and Seneca Nation’s Marshals for their thorough investigative work.

Assistant District Attorney Michael D. Smith of the DA’s Homicide Bureau and Assistant District Attorney Alicia M. Lilley of the DA’s Felony Trials Bureau prosecuted the case.

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