Jamonte Hill

Credit: Robin Scholz/The News-Gazette

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - A Champaign man has been sentenced to 56 years in prison for shooting at a car with three teenagers inside, leaving a 12-year-old permanently disabled. 

The sentence against Jamonte R. Hill, 30, was handed down Wednesday after he was convicted of attempted murder by a Champaign County Jury in December 2023. 

Champaign Police said that Hill shot up the vehicle, firing at least 17 times, on October 19, 2022.

Hill was arrested in January 2023. 

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