BROCKTON – Former Boston firefighter and 9/11 responder Richard Parker showed no emotion as he was sentenced Friday to 4 to 6 years in prison for throwing knives at his wife in 2011.

A jury found Parker guilty of kidnapping, assault with a dangerous weapon and intimidation of a witness Thursday night in Brockton Superior Court.



Parker, accused of throwing knives at his wife, Kimberly Parker, had also been charged with assault to murder and threat to commit a crime as a result of the incident.



Parker had failed to convince the jury of his innocence despite his second straight day on the witness stand.

Kimberly Parker's sister, niece and friend gave teary victim impact statements Friday morning before his sentence was handed down.



On Dec. 18, 2011 just after 5 a.m., Parker's wife, who has since died, called 911 and told police that her husband was throwing knives at her.



“My husband is trying to kill me,” Parker yelled over the phone. “He’s got knives all over the house he just keeps throwing.”



Police responded and placed Richard Parker under arrest.



For Kimberly Parker's family, the trial was another part of a long road they traveled in recent years, accentuated by her mysterious death at the age of 45 in her home on March 10, 2013.

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After 17 months of waiting for her autopsy results, Kimberly's sister Stephanie Deeley said they were told last August that her cause of death was officially considered “undetermined.”



Also, Deeley said Richard Parker has not given anyone on Kimberly’s side of the family access to any of her belongings, including her cremated remains.



“He (Richard Parker) told us that we could all have some memory, some memorabilia, something of Kim’s. But we never even got to do that,” Deeley told The Enterprise Wednesday.



When officers arrived at the Parker house at 3 Satucket Ave., in East Bridgewater in December 2011, they found Kimberly Parker 200 yards down the street in the woods with her two dogs. A police officer had stayed on the phone with her until officers arrived.



East Bridgewater Police officer Joel Silva found Richard Parker in the woods 50 feet behind his house lying on the ground.



The inside of the house was in shambles, police said. On a bedroom door there were several stab marks believed to be made from knives. Inside the disheveled bedroom a wall had multiple stab marks and slash marks and holes.



Richard Parker testified on Thursday that he had previously been prescribed several medications for anxiety and depression after attempting suicide twice in 2011. He said he has flashbacks and trouble dealing with the memories of responding to 9/11.



Parker told the jury that he had been drinking heavily the night of Dec. 17, 2011 while on his medication.



He said he never touched his wife and never threw knives at her but that he was depressed and drunk and taking his anger out by destroying items in the house and stabbing a wall with a knife.



