NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) - Authorities say a Northeast Texas man who shot a romantic rival in the back then drove the victim to a hospital must serve 18 years in prison.
Barry Kendall Green of Simms was sentenced Thursday in New Boston. The 35-year-old Green earlier pleaded guilty to assault causing serious bodily injury.
Green sought probation over last September’s attack on 40-year-old Michael Brad Hooks.
Prosecutors say Green argued with a woman he dated and she threatened to resume a relationship with Hooks, prompting Green to say he’d make sure that wouldn’t happen.
Bowie County sheriff’s investigators say Green told them he grabbed a shotgun, drove to Hooks’ home, shot the victim and then took him to a hospital.
A doctor testified Hooks suffered a collapsed lung, broken ribs and lost a kidney.
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