Silver Spring man gets 5 years for drug-related shooting

A Silver Spring man has been sentenced to five years in prison for shooting another man during a botched drug deal.

Court records show that 23-year-old Christopher Gayle was sentenced in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court after entering an Alford plea to charges of attempted second-degree murder and using a firearm during a violent crime. In such a plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him.