BANGOR (AP) – A 52-year-old man from Lee was sentenced Monday in Penobscot County Superior Court to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of his wife.

Carl Dyer was charged with murder but pleaded guilty in October to the lesser charge of manslaughter as part of a deal with prosecutors who agreed to recommend the 20-year sentence.

Police were dispatched to the couple’s home on July 2, 2004, after Dyer reported that he shot his wife, Rosemarie, 52. She was shot once in the thigh and died 36 hours later in Eastern Maine Medical Center.

Officers found Rosemarie Dyer lying on a couch with a pool of blood on the floor next to her and Dyer in front of the home with blood on his hands and a shotgun broken into three pieces at his feet.

When he called about the shooting, Dyer told a police dispatcher that he was off his medication, according to an affidavit filed with the court. Police have not said what medicine he may have been taking.

Dyer, as a convicted felon, was barred from possessing a firearm.