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Man Who Supplied Gun In Murder Of Endia Martin Sentenced To 100 Years In Prison

(STMW) -- The man who provided the gun used to kill 14-year-old Endia Martin was sentenced Monday to 100 years in prison after being convicted of murder, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.

"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.

At his trial in January, prosecutors said he handed a gun to his 14-year-old niece that she used to kill 14-year-old Endia Martin in 2014.

"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."

Flora's niece, now 16, is awaiting trial in Cook County Juvenile Court.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2016. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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