HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A former high school football captain has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man who he said sexually abused him as a minor, provided him drugs and called him gay in an Internet posting.

Tarence ``T.J.'' Mitchell was sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court for the death of 27-year-old Ronald Taylor Jr. in November 2013. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter in October.

Mitchell's lawyers said Taylor sexually assaulted Mitchell as a minor and used threats and physical violence to force him to engage in sexual contact.

Mitchell was a student at Bloomfield High School at the time of the crime. He apologized to Taylor's family in court Friday and said he didn't mean to kill him.

Taylor's relatives said his death devastated their family.