A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after admitting to pointing a gun at a 7-year-old boy during a confrontation in 2023.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey handed down the sentence Thursday to 59-year-old Dwight Byrd, who pleaded guilty in May to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Court records state that on Sept. 7, 2023, witnesses reported to St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officers that Byrd threatened the child by aiming a black handgun at him and declaring that he would “teach him some (expletive) respect.”…