Almost certainly.
I remember about a year ago someone posting a news story from a very similar incident -- either in NJ or NY, in which a black man mistook an unarmed white teenager for a criminal, got in some kind of melee with him, and ended up shooting him dead.
The black shooter was sentenced to years (can't remember how many) in jail, and the national news never mentioned it until this incident came out.
This one?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/nyregion/23trial.html?_r=0 Somewhat similar. Paterson ended up commuting his sentence:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/12/23/paterson-commutes-sentence-of-convicted-man-in-2006-shooting/
