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TAMPA, Fla. \- A judge has sentenced 16-year-old Deondre Smith to 25 years in Florida State Prison after a jury found him guilty of attempted murder. Smith was charged as an adult after surveillance footage showed him firing a gun at a person entering a crowded game room at the Boulevard West River apartments. The case, prosecuted by the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Gun Violence Unit, resulted in a guilty verdict in July. Smith fired multiple rounds but missed his intended target, instead injuring one of his friends inside the game room. During the investigation, Smith admitted he planned to …

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