A Chicago man who opened fire on a Noble Square street in 2021, striking another man multiple times, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison. The punishment, handed down by U.S. District Judge Martha Pacold, is the maximum allowed for the federal firearm charge, according to a court filing by prosecutors.
Shortly after 9 p.m. on June 8, 2021, officers responded to multiple calls of shots fired in the area of North Noble and West Walton Streets. According to both federal filings and earlier CWBChicago reporting, police were searching for two suspects with distinctive hairstyles after the victim was shot in his legs, knee, and right eye. He survived, but federal prosecutors later described the injuries as permanently disfiguring.
About fifteen minutes after the shooting, officers spotted two suspects on the 1300 block of West Walton. When police approached, the pair grabbed their waistbands and ran, prosecutors said. Officers caught a teenage boy first and recovered a handgun from him. The second suspect, identified as Angel Sosa, 27, ran with a separate firearm before throwing it to the ground as officers closed in. Police recovered the gun, which was loaded and equipped with an extended magazine.
Sosa had been paroled just two months earlier for another firearm case. Prosecutors said he was legally barred from having a gun and had previously been convicted of aggravated robbery with a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon…