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Man Gets Nearly 22 Years in Prison for Shooting Teen in Hate Crime

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A Missouri man who lured a teenager into a wooded area and shot him eight times because of his sexual orientation, causing serious and lingering injuries, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison, the Justice Department said.

The man, Malachi Robinson, 25, of Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty last summer to a federal hate crime, admitting that he had tried to murder the then-16-year-old victim, identified in court records only as M.S., who spent two weeks in a hospital, underwent multiple surgeries and still has bullets inside of him, according to prosecutors.

ImageMalachi Robinson of Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for shooting a man because of his sexual orientation.Credit...Jackson County Sheriff's Office Judge Brian C.

Wimes of Federal District Court in Western Missouri sentenced Mr. Robinson to 262 months in federal prison without parole for violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.

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