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Man involved in Davenport shootout sentenced to 20 years in prison

A Davenport man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison following a robbery that turned into a shootout.

A Davenport man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison following a robbery that turned into a shootout.

Back in October 2014, two Davenport men received their sentences for a robbery they were involved in in October 2011 that ended with someone getting shot and killed. One month later the third man involved, 25-year-old Arthur Allen Jr., was sentenced.

On October 17, 2011 a group of men, 28-year-old Louis Warren Jr., 32-year-old John Louis Hodges, and Allen, planned to rob planned to rob Alexander Hubbard, Sr. at his Davenport home, prosecutors said.

On that day the three got into Hodges’ car and drove to Hubbard’s home. Hodges bought marijuana from Hubbard, and as he left, Warren and Allen burst into the home and gunfire erupted, according to a statement from U.S. States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.

A shot fired by one of the intruders hit 20-year-old Demetrius Lewis Jr., who was in the home at the time, according to the statement. Another shot, fired by Hubbard, hit Warren in the abdomen.

Warren was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Lewis later died at a hospital.

Warren and Hodges were sentenced to 14 and 16 years in prison, respectively for attempted interference with commerce by robbery.

According to a statement from the Department of Justice, on November 20, 2014, Allen, who used to live in Davenport, was sentenced to 20 years by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery.

Warren, Hodges, and Allen were all ordered to pay $100 toward to Crime Victims Fund and ordered to pay restitution to the family of Demetrius Lewis, Jr. All three were also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after they get out of prison.

Back in 2012 Hubbard was sentenced to 8 years in prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, according to Klinefeldt’s statement.

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