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A Dunkirk man will spend the next 12 ½ years in prison for killing a Silver Creek man last year. 23-year-old David Corsi II was sentenced for shooting 20-year-old Ricardo Vazquez on March 30, 2011. Vazquez died of his injuries the next day. Corsi turned himself in to police 26 hours after the shooting. He was originally charged with second-degree murder, but pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. No motive was given for the shooting, other than the two men were involved in a fight. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

A Chautauqua County man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter for fatally shooting another man in Dunkirk. 22-year-old David Corsi took the plea deal just a week before trial for last April’s killing of 20-year-old Ricardo Vazquez of Silver Creek. Corsi faces 11 to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced in April. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

An arrest has been made in the fatal shooting in Dunkirk Wednesday night. Dunkirk Police Chief David Ortolano says 22-year-old David Corsi of Dunkirk has been charged with second-degree murder for the death of 20-year-old Ricardo Vasquez of Silver Creek. Vasquez died Thursday at ECMC. Ortolano says Corsi was arrested late Thursday night following an investigation that included every law enforcement agency in Chautauqua County.