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Marcella Clark taught her grandson from an early age to be proud of their heritage — the Omaha Indian Tribe.

She began showing him the cultural rituals and burial responsibilities he would have when she would one day die, never expecting that tragedy would strike her family.

“Everything I was teaching my grandson to do for me, I was doing for him,” she wailed at the sentencing for her grandson’s killer. “Never in my life did I think I would have to do this for any of my grandchildren.”

The courtroom was packed Thursday as two dozen supporters on each side for 15-year-old Tyon Wells and the boy he fatally shot, 17-year-old Zachary Parker, awaited Judge Shelly Stratman’s ruling.

Stratman ordered Wells to serve 22 to 45 years in prison on a second-degree murder charge, meaning Wells could be placed on parole as early as 11 years from now and automatically released after 22½ years, according to state law.

Wells was 14 years old when he brought a gun to a small marijuana deal on Feb. 25, 2018, near 25th Street and Crown Point Avenue. He fired three shots as Parker and his friends drove away, hitting the driver and killing Parker.