A 26-year-old Carbondale man, with connections to Centralia, was sentenced Wednesday in Jackson County Court to 88 years in prison after a jury found him guilty in September of first-degree murder.

Devale Johnson was sentenced for the August 2020 shooting death of Jamonte Allison, Sr.

After a nearly 10-day trial, the jury found Johnson guilty of all three charges of first-degree murder for Allison’s death, and also for a sentencing enhancement due to the use of a firearm during the crime.

In 2016, Johnson made the news in Centralia when Darius Holliday shot him and two others at Laura Leake Park.

Holliday is serving a 30-year sentence at Western Illinois Correctional Center for the Laura Leake Park shooting.

But that wasn’t the first time the young Johnson had been shot. Johnson, a standout basketball star at his Georgia high school, signed in April 2015 with Cincinnati State College for a full scholarship to play ball in the fall.

According to WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, then-18-year-old Johnson was shot and injured a month later during an altercation over a girl outside an area high school.