EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A southwestern Illinois man has been sentenced to a quarter century in federal prison for shooting and wounding a store owner during a robbery last year.

Thirty-two-year-old Phillip Smith of Caseyville was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis. That’s where he pleaded guilty in May to three felony counts that included interfering with interstate commerce by robbery and using a firearm as a felon during a federal crime.

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