Everyday we get to make choices. Choices which may, and often do, have long and potentially far-reaching consequences. Some are wise choices. Continue in school, go to college, learn a trade, become a productive member of society.
Some are unwise choices. Commit crimes, have a felony conviction, commit additional crimes, and the like.
This is very simple.
He chose unwisely.
Shell shop shooter gets 50 years
By Dalondo Moultrie
The Herald-Zeitung NEW BRAUNFELS — The gunman in the armed robbery and shooting at a local gas station/convenience store in August accepted a deal Tuesday guaranteeing the 20-year-old will spend at least a quarter of a century behind bars, a prosecutor said.
Jon Scott Young of New Braunfels pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and unlawful use of a firearm by a convicted felon, said Sammy McCrary, Comal County chief felony prosecutor. District Judge Jack Robison sentenced Young to 50 years in the state penitentiary.
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