Jury recommends 38 1/2 years in missionary death

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) — A jury in Chesapeake has recommended a Virginia man spend 38 1/2 years in prison for killing a Mormon missionary and wounding another.

Tuesday's recommendation for James Boughton Jr. will be considered by a trial judge during formal sentencing set for April.

The 22-year-old was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the January 2006 slaying of Morgan W. Young of Bountiful, Utah. Boughton also was convicted in the shooting of Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley, Colo. Heidbrink recovered and testified at Boughton's trial. Heidbrink said in court Tuesday that he hoped to forgive Boughton.

The missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were shot while knocking on doors in the southeast Virginia city.