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Utah man gets prison for gunning down his best friend after a drunken late-night fistfight

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Farmington • The shackles that chained his fidgeting hands clinked loudly as Christopher Fritz stood in a Davis County courtroom Wednesday and offered a simple apology for shooting and killing his best friend in December 2016.

“Taylor didn’t deserve this,” Fritz said of 24-year-old Taylor VanCamp. “And neither does his family. I just really am sorry. I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what my actions caused, and I wish I could take it all back.”

Fritz, now 21, pleaded guilty in November to murder, a first-degree felony, for shooting his friend in their Layton home after a drunken fistfight in the pre-dawn hours of Dec.