Wafer faced a maximum possible sentence of life imprisonment for the second-degree murder charge and 15 years for manslaughter, and an additional two years for the felony gun charge. The trial began on June 2014. Wafer was found guilty of all three charges on August 7, 2014. On September 3, 2014, Wafer was sentenced to 17 to 32 years of prison. He received 15 to 30 years for second-degree murder, and a mandatory two-year sentence for the felony firearms charge. McBride's death is one of several deaths of African-Americans protested by the Black Lives Matter movement. Comparisons have also been made to the September 14, 2013, shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell. Ferrell, who was African American, was shot 10 times and killed by a white police officer, Randall Kerrick. Like McBride, Ferrell had been involved in an automobile accident and may have been seeking assistance. He was allegedly running toward Kerrick when he was shot. Kerrick was charged with voluntary manslaughter.