Conn. man sentenced in shooting of Mass. woman

BOSTON (AP) — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to 29 and a half years in prison for shooting and wounding a Massachusetts dance instructor in a murder-for-hire plot.

Dorian Membreno, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty last year to murder-for-hire and related charges last year in the attack on Marybeth Banks who was shot twice in the driveway of her Pembroke, Mass., home.

Banks delivered a victim impact statement Wednesday at his sentencing. WATD-FM reports Banks called Membreno "a piece of garbage" and a "menace to society." Membreno asked for her forgiveness.

Prosecutors said Membreno was hired by a former boyfriend of Banks to drive to Massachusetts and kill her for a fee.

Membreno is subject to deportation when he is released from prison.