NC man gets 7 to 9 years in teen’s shooting death. ‘This is an injustice,’ mother says.

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 Carlos Olguin, the man charged in the shooting death of an East Mecklenburg High School football player, was sentenced Monday to seven to nine years in prison — a plea deal that the victim’s family members say is far too lenient.

Police say Olguin, an east Charlotte resident with seven previous gun charges, repeatedly shot 18-year-old Christian Allen during a Feb. 19, 2017 party about four miles from the school.

Olguin, now 27, was originally charged with first-degree murder — a charge that could have landed him in prison for life. On Monday, Mecklenburg County prosecutors allowed him to plead guilty to the much-reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter. Superior Court Judge Gregory Hayes sentenced him to 80 to 108 months in prison.

Allen’s mother, Beth, said she was so upset to learn of the planned plea deal that she stormed out of a meeting with prosecutors last month.

Olguin’s many previous gun charges suggest that once he is free, he may shoot someone again, she said.

“I feel that this is an injustice,” she said. ”... Someone else is going to be in the position we’re in.”

Emotions ran high inside the courtroom. Allen’s father, David, loudly told Olguin: “Hey Carlos, there’s a special place in hell for people like you. Why do you have to put us through this?”

Bailiffs ushered David Allen out of the courtroom. “I understand this is a heavy situation,” one bailiff warned the family. “But if it happens again, you won’t be going out the back door. You may be going out the side door (to the jail.)“

Frustration with plea deal

About a dozen of Allen’s friends and family members attended the plea hearing Monday morning, with several of them telling Judge Hayes that they believed Olguin’s sentence was too light.

Terra Varnes, the lead prosecutor in the case, told the judge that the trouble at the 2017 house party began when Allen discovered that a bag he had brought, containing marijuana, had disappeared. Allen got into an argument over the missing bag and wound up punching two of Olguin’s friends, knocking one of them unconscious, Varnes said.