Anthony T. Creamer was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for a violent home invasion at a Buffalo police officer’s house where an accomplice was fatally shot.

Creamer had pleaded guilty to a burglary and attempted robbery plea.

State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns told Creamer, 33, of Woodward Avenue, that Police Officer Charles E. Gidney Sr. “had nothing to feel guilty about” in shooting both Creamer and Reno Sayles when they broke into the Burlington Avenue home at about 9:30 a. m. April 22.

Prosecutor Lawrence M. Schwegler said Creamer and Sayles, 36, had not anticipated that Gidney would be off-duty and at home at the time of their break-in. An Erie County grand jury later cleared Gidney of criminal accountability for shooting the two.