Delayed multiple times, a Boonville man who pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges for shooting at another vehicle on I-70 in Montgomery County more than a year and a half ago was sentenced to spend more than a decade in state prison before the end of 2021.

A probable-cause statement says on April 7, 2020, Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers responded to the report of shots fired from inside a moving vehicle that struck and disabled a van, which had three persons inside. Nobody was injured inside the van. A truck driver also gave an eyewitness account of the incident.

On March 18, 2021, Chad Michael Kennedy pleaded guilty to six counts of unlawful use of a weapon; three counts of assault or attempt in the first degree; and one count of armed criminal action.

On December 28, the judge sentenced Kennedy to 15 years on six of the counts, seven years on three counts and three years on the other charge in the department of corrections. All of the sentences have been ordered to run concurrently. Kennedy gets credit for time already served.