KINGSTON, N.Y. Gregory Thayer was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in state prison for the shooting death of Bruce Swierc, a man Thayer called his best friend, according to a press release from the Ulster County District Attorney’s Office. Thayer, 50, was convicted on May 10 of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree weapons possession following […]
A man from the region has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his best friend by shooting him in the back of the head while he was in the area from California visiting his mother.Ulster County resident Gregory Thayer, age 50, …