A 19-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison after admitting to his role in a deadly shooting during an October drug deal at a home north of Lubbock.
Ahdias Stewart, who has been held at the Lubbock County Detention Center since his Oct. 11 arrest, pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 20 years in prison.
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He will have to serve half of his sentence before he is eligible for release on parole.
He admitted to shooting and injuring 46-year-old Andrew Mojica during an Oct. 7 drug-deal-turned-robbery in the 9900 block of North Boston.
As part of his plea, prosecutors abandoned a pending murder charge against him in connection with the same shooting, which resulted in the death 56-year-old Dickey Ruiz.
Murder carries a punishment of five years to life in prison, while aggravated assault with a deadly weapon is a second-degree felony that carries a punishment of two to 20 years in prison.