Ronald Gasser, 61, freed early from 10-year sentence after pleading guilty to manslaughter in road rage shooting

The man who shot the former NFL player Joe McKnight to death during a road rage confrontation outside New Orleans has completed his prison sentence less than eight years after the killing.

Ronald Gasser’s release from imprisonment quietly ended a winding legal saga that involved an overturned murder conviction and his subsequently pleading guilty to manslaughter – despite his initial claims of fatally shooting McKnight in justifiable defense of his life.