Missouri father gets 13 years because he shot about the son's season for youth football coach

St. Louis (AP)-A Father in Missouri was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday because he had shot and injured a youth football coach in St. Louis about his son's season, while 9- and 10-year-olds practiced nearby.

A jury was guilty of Daryl Clemmons, 45, last month due to assault and armed criminal measures in October 2023 by Shaquille Ratimore, a volunteer coach of the City Recends Football League. He was hospitalized in a critical condition, but survived.

Both men were armed. According to the public prosecutor, the coach gave a friend his gun and said Clemmons that they should fight fists. Clemmons rejected this idea and shot Briddle five times. The father later fled the police in the evening.

The team was then called “a number of incidents immortalized by adults” about the officers of St. Louis, which called the shooting area near a practice field in Sherman Park in the shootout. At that time, Stammerore said he was angry about the decision and called it “not fair” that the team should suffer.

The defense argued that the shootout was for self -defense and submitted an application for a new process.

The public prosecutor in St. Louis said the two men contradicted the seasons that Clemmon's son had received.

“Violence, especially in youth sports, is completely unacceptable and undermines the purpose of these programs – teaching teamwork, discipline and respect,” said Circuit lawyer Gore Gore in a press release after the jury returned the culprit.

After the shootout, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis worked with the city to offer advice to the players and others who witnessed the shootout.

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