Man sentenced to 25 years for killing teen outside Renton Big 5

25 years behind bars for the man convicted of killing 17 year old Ali Rouhani outside of Renton Big five sporting goods store. Aaron Myers confronted three teens, including Rouhani in the parking lot in june of 2024. He said he thought they were going to commit an armed robbery because he saw one of them with a gun. That gun turned out to be an airsoft gun that Rouhani was trying to return to the store. Myers fired several shots at Rouhani and even continued shooting him when he was on the ground. Boxer T's Lauren Donovan was in the courtroom as Rouhani's loved ones asked the judge to consider the future he never got to have. After an emotional intense day in court, the judge delivered her sentencing right at 11 o'clock. Then at close range, you shot and killed Ali, a child who is backing away from you. This was not his responsibility to do that. He was not law enforcement. Wednesday morning, somber looking spectators entered the Kent courtroom, carrying with them photos of Ali Rouhani, the 17 year old shot and killed outside the big five sporting goods in Renton back in 2024. He wanted the court that Ali was there to become a position. He wanted to serve the community across the aisle on the defendant's side, audible, inconsolable sobs. Aaron Myers, the off duty security guard found guilty of killing the teenager choked up to reading a poem. Our early encounter was a cruel twist of fate, your young life lost on this now hallowed day. In it, he says in death, he has become closer to Ali. You entered heaven and I went to hell. A neighbor of Ali's was the last to speak. A doctor himself. He talked about the boy who dreamed of following in his footsteps. There's nothing that this court can do that's going to make this all better for everyone. But please don't forget all that was lost with Ali's death. After hearing all that, the judge sentenced Myers to roughly 25 years in prison, a decision applauded by Ali supporters and Afghan community members as justice served and Ali was entitled to grow up to continue through adolescence to adulthood to all the milestones his family will never see him reach reporting in Kent Lauren Donovan FOX 13 News.