WHITE PLAINS – A Bronx man, who shot and killed a Mount Vernon resident while his friend was trying to mediate a dispute between the victim and a neighbor, was sentenced in Westchester County Court on Wednesday to 22 years in state prison.

Shand Nash, 41, had been found guilty after a jury trial of manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, in connection with the shooting of Horatio Farquharson.

On July 19, 2008, Nash drove a friend to a location in Mount Vernon so that person could mediate the dispute.

After some conversation in front of the residence, Nash became enraged at Farquharson, pulled out a .45 cal. Semi-automatic pistol and shot the victim once in the vase of the neck and upper chest.

The victim ran through driveways and out onto a street where he collapses and died later at a hospital.

Nash fled the scene, but was arrested days later in a motel. The gun used in the killing was found by police.