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Friday, August 14, 2009
Walmart robber gets seven years in prison
DAYTON — La’Shawn Porcher, one of two men accused of a robbery at an area Walmart that ended with the shooting of the victim, was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman sentenced Porcher on Thursday, Aug. 13.
Porcher and Richard T. Elijah were scheduled to go on trial before Wiseman last week.
Porcher, 46, pleaded guilty July 24 to complicity to commit aggravated robbery. A second count, complicity to commit felonious assault, was dropped. The charge he pleaded to is a first-degree felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but under the plea agreement, he was to be sentenced to between five and eight years.
Just as his trial was to start Aug. 4, Elijah pleaded guilty to all indicted charges: two counts of felonious assault and one count of aggravated robbery. As part of the plea agreement, Wiseman sentenced Elijah, 47, to 10 years in prison. Had he been convicted after a trial, he could have received up to 26 years in prison.
Elijah had been released from prison just two days before the Walmart shooting for an April conviction for breaking and entering.
The incident occurred Dec. 20 at the store at 1701 W. Dorothy Lane. Gina King was wheeling a shopping cart to her car when she was robbed and shot in the abdomen. She was released from Miami Valley Hospital six days later.
Less than an hour after the robbery, Moraine police arrested Porcher and Elijah, who are both from Dayton.
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