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Nearly a decade after Adam Cavanagh’s fatal shooting, his killer on Tuesday was given a maximum youth sentence of seven years in prison.

The man, who was a young offender at the time of Cavanagh’s Feb. 3, 2007, death and can’t be named, said he wished he’d acted differently when the 18-year-old was struck in the head by a bullet fired through a northeast basement window.

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“I didn’t intend for this to happen,” he told court while apologizing to Cavanagh’s family.

“I wish I’d had the courage to take control of the situation that night so no one would suffer, but I didn’t . . . I’m ashamed and disappointed in myself.”

He vowed to help youth through community service.

The meandering case never fully determined who pulled the trigger the night Cavanagh was killed during a party at his family’s Templeby Cres. N.E. home.

Another man linked to the crime, Salim Kaddoura, pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to murder and was sentenced last July to four years in prison.