CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Detroit teenager pleaded guilty Monday to robbing and shooting a woman in Kanawha County last May.
Denario Montgomery, 16, was supposed to be purchasing a cell phone from Stephanie Scott on May 28, 2017. She had advertised it on the website let it go.com and arranged a meeting in Belle, according to Kanawha County Assistant Prosecutor Maryclaire Akers.
“He presented a gun and told her to give him everything she had. She also had a firearm in her car and she was reaching toward her purse when the defendant shot her in the abdomen area, took her phone and ran from the scene,” Akers said.
Scott was later able to identify Montgomery. He was originally charged as a juvenile but the case was later transferred to adult status.
Scott suffered a permanent injury as a result of the shooting, Akers said.
Montgomery faces 30 years in prison as part of the binding plea agreement he entered Monday. Akers said the proposed prison time is consistent with a 2014 robbery and shooting at the Kanawha City Foodland. Levi Lanham, who was 18 at the time of that crime, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Montgomery is scheduled to be sentenced by Kanawha County Circuit Judge Charles King at 1:30 p.m. on June 25.