EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A man shot by a southwestern Illinois woman after he broke in to her home has pleaded guilty to home invasion.
Joshua Jewell of Troy entered the plea in Madison County court before going on trial this week for the 2013 break-in. He faced six to 30 years in prison before the plea deal, but the county state’s attorney’s office agreed not to ask for more than 19 years, a spokeswoman said.
Debi Keeney said she shot Jewell with a small-caliber revolver at her sister’s Highland apartment, believing he would kill her 47-year-old sister. He had her sister in a choke hold while demanding money, she said. The women said they didn’t know him.
Jewell had been hospitalized in St. Louis after being shot and entered and left the courtroom in a wheelchair, The (Alton) Telegraph reported.
A sentencing date has not been set.
