The man who drove a car used in a botched gun sale that ended with a boy’s shooting death last year was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison.
While rejecting a defense lawyer’s argument in Lucas County Common Pleas Court that Shamur Hughes deserved a minimum sentence, Judge Lori Olender said he was not as involved in the robbery side of the incident as three others in the car were.
Judge Olender also acknowledged Hughes’ willingness to testify in the recent aggravated murder trial at which a jury convicted two of those co-defendants in sentencing him to eight years for first-degree involuntary manslaughter. Two years for second-degree robbery will be concurrent with that time…