Parolee gets 10 years on shooting-related charge

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A parolee convicted of shooting a man outside a southwestern Illinois strip club has been sentenced to a decade in prison.

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced 45-year-old Raymond Smoot of Brooklyn to the maximum punishment for being a felon with a gun.

Smoot had a previous such conviction and was on supervised release from prison when he shot the man in February 2010.

Smoot was convicted in May. At his trial, testimony revealed that Smoot was standing in front of the Peekaboo Lounge in Brooklyn when he became involved in a heated discussion with the victim. As Smoot turned away, the gun Smoot was holding discharged, firing a bullet into the victim’s leg.