US man sentenced for cyberstalking father of Parkland school shooting victim


A file photo of Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, holding a picture of his daughter on March 5, 2018, as he listens to questions from the media in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida. A California property manager was sentenced, on Oct 20, 2023, to a year in federal prison for sending more than 200 vile online messages to Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. — Miami Herald via AP, File

A man who sent hundreds of repulsive online messages to the father of a high school student killed in the Parkland mass shooting was sentenced in Miami federal court to a year behind bars.

James Catalano, 62, who had pleaded guilty to cyber harassment, must also spend three years of supervised release after he gets out of prison. He has until Nov 29 to surrender to the US Marshals Service at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr US Courthouse in Miami, records show.

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