FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) [—] A Fairbanks teenager involved in a shootout during an attempt to rob a drug dealer has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports 17-year-old Chester Clifton Fields Jr. fired a 9mm handgun that hit a man whom he and an accomplice were trying to rob.
Cross was 16 on Feb. 25 when he and 21-year-old Isaiah Cross entered an apartment at Wedgewood Resort. Fields carried a pistol and Cross carried a BB gun.
Prosecutors say a man inside the apartment shot Cross several times. Fields fired at the shooter and a bullet lodged against the man’s spine.
Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Crail says Fields is lucky the man did not die or he would be facing a murder charge.
Fields pleaded guilty to robbery.
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