A Columbia man pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the shooting of two juveniles in Jefferson City in December 2014.
Tavion Jones, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree assault and one count of armed criminal action. He had been charged with two counts of first-degree assault, three counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful use of a weapon.
He was sentenced to seven years in prison, which will run concurrent with all other Department of Corrections sentences against him.
According to Jefferson City Police, the shooting occurred in the 600 block of School Street.
Jones and three teenagers were in a car that went down the dead-end School Street, then turned around and came back. The two victims were outside of one of the residences on the street when they were shot.
The police statement said Jones and his companions confronted the two juveniles over an ongoing dispute from earlier in the year.
The group from Columbia fled the scene, but were eventually pulled over and arrested on U.S. 63, near the Boone County line.
Jones was identified as the person who fired several rounds from a 9mm pistol at the victims, hitting them both in their legs.
At first, Jones denied being at the scene, but later admitted to firing the shots that wounded the juveniles.
Investigators later learned the group from Columbia went to a residence in Jefferson City, where the gun that was used to commit the crime was hidden and eventually recovered.