(MSC News)--20 years in prison.

That’s the sentence handed down to a St. Joseph man for a shooting last summer that left another man severely injured.

KQ2-TV reports 24-year-old Michael Dennis was sentenced Monday in a Buchanan County courtroom on a charge of first-degree assault.

Dennis pleaded guilty to the charge in November.

He was charged with shooting a 22-year-old man last July in the 100-block of South 19th Street.  The man was transported to Mosaic Life Center in St. Joseph for treatment of serious injuries.