URBANA, Ill. (WAND) - A man who shot another in the arm in a grocery store parking lot is headed to prison.Â
A sentence of eight years behind bars was handed down Wednesday to 20-year-old Tyrone Fields, according to court records. Fields entered a guilty plea on the same day to a charge of aggravated battery with a firearm.Â
Fields shot a 19-year-old man in the arm on Nov. 29, 2019, in the Schnucks parking lot. The store is located at 109 N. Mattis Ave. in Champaign.
According to The News-Gazette, the shooting happened during a cannabis sale, when the victim and a friend when to make a purchase. The friend was driving the truck and the victim was a passenger.Â
As the transaction between the friend and seller happened, the newspaper said a passenger door opened and Fields shot a gun. The shot hit the victim in the arm. They were dropped off at Carle Hospital for treatment.Â
Police arrested Fields in mid-January after a warrant for his arrest was issued in late December.Â
Fields received credit for 229 days served. He has a 2019 Champaign County conviction on his record for resisting a peace officer.Â
