PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - A 24-year-old Peoria man who prosecutors contended drove a car from which a passenger shot and killed a man in another vehicle has been sentenced to 66 years in prison.
The (Peoria) Journal Star reports that Jamal Younger was sentenced on Friday, days after he was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting death of Jordan Allison.
Younger maintained through two trials - the first of which ended in a hung jury - that he did not know his passenger would open fire.
But during the trial, prosecutors presented evidence that on the night of the shooting, Younger and the alleged gunman spotted Allison’s vehicle and followed it before the gunman leaned out the window and fired several times.
The alleged gunman has never been arrested. But Younger was charged with murder under the legal theory of accountability, meaning that he’s accountable for the actions of the other suspect’s actions and therefore just as culpable as the person who pulled the trigger.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.