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February 25, 2022 - 6:57am | By Kyle Cornell
(Fargo, ND) -- A Fargo man has been sentenced in a shooting that seriously injured a young West Fargo boy who was hit by a stray bullet that entered his house.
20-year-old CJ Jesse James Carruthers was sentenced to 10-year in federal prison. He was also given three-years of supervised release and was ordered to pay more than $62,000 restitution.
Last March, Carruthers fired a shot while robbing an alleged drug dealer when one of bullets traveled through the wall of a nearby home and hit a six-year old boy was who was lying in his bed. The boy suffered extensive injuries.