WHEATON, Ill. (AP) - A Chicago man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murder of a clerk during the 2014 robbery of a convenience store.
In sentencing 24-year-old Stephan Russell, DuPage Chief Judge Daniel Guerin noted Wednesday the man knew the planned robbery of Sam’s Tobacco and Food Mart in Bensenville wasn’t going well when his victims wouldn’t let him in.
Gurein said Russell had a chance to leave, “but he chose to shoot Hussein Saghir without reason.”
Russell was convicted of firing a single a shot that pierced Saghir’s heart and both lungs.
After the shooting, Russell, Kenneth Bardlett and a third man, Tremayne Davis, who remained in the minivan during the robbery, fled to Chicago.
The 24-year-old Bardlett of Bellwood pleaded guilty earlier this month to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Davis was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2016 after pleading guilty to attempted armed robbery.
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