(MSC News)--30 years in prison.
That’s the sentence handed down to a St. Joseph man convicted of holding a woman hostage at a St. Joseph motel in October 2015 after kidnapping and shooting her.
KQ2-TV reports 45-year-old Roderick Ellis was sentenced Monday in a Buchanan County courtroom on five felony counts.
A jury found Ellis guilty last November on charges of kidnapping, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and two counts of armed criminal action.
Prosecutors say Ellis kidnapped Rebecca Urban, with whom he had been having an affair, from her work. Ellis then forced her at gunpoint to drive to the Motel 6 on Frederick Boulevard where he shot her in the arm, dragged her into his motel room and held her hostage for nearly 11 hours before surrounding to law enforcement.
Urban was treated at a Kansas City hospital. No officers were injured during the standoff.
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