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100 years for uncle who supplied gun in Endia Martin slaying

Posted March 20, 2016 11:00 pm

Chicago Sun-Times

The man who provided the gun used to kill 14-year-old Endia Martin of Chicago was sentenced Monday to 100 years in prison after being convicted of murder.

"There are no excuses or rationalization for giving a child a gun to take to ridiculous fight about a boy," Judge Thaddeus Wilson said at the sentencing for Donnell Flora. "Children in this city are dying by the hundreds because adults fail to and/or refuse to be adults."

Flora, who is paralyzed from the waist down from a 2009 shooting, showed up in court with a Bible in his lap.

"I want to say I'm sorry for what happened. It never was supposed to go the way it went," Flora told the judge. "I wish I could trade places with (Endia), but I can't. Due to the stupid action I've made, I'm going to suffer for the rest of my life."

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