A teen was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting and critically injuring a 19-year-old during an attempted robbery in St. Paul last October.

Samuel Cal Flowers, 18, received an 11-year sentence in Ramsey County District Court Tuesday after being convicted of one count of first-degree assault resulting in great bodily harm, according to court records.

The second-degree attempted murder charge previously facing Flowers was dismissed.

St. Paul police responded to a residence on the Greater East Side at approximately 11:15 p.m. Oct. 10 on a report that a man had been shot. They discovered Kenneth Gregory Davis inside a home on Reaney Avenue between Kennard and Flandrau streets. He had been shot four times in the upper back and once in the leg.

People interviewed in the home told officers Davis had reportedly started selling marijuana recently and had been texting with someone about a sale earlier that night. Moments after he left the house, they heard gunfire.

Davis suddenly came running back into the house and collapsed.

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After his condition stabilized, Davis told investigators he had been exchanging messages with someone on Facebook who wanted to buy marijuana from him before he was shot. The messages came from an account registered to a woman. He eventually left the house and was approached by two armed men who demanded that he turn over his belongings.

He struggled against them as they started digging through his pockets, he told police. They began firing shots as he ran away.

He identified Flowers as one of the shooters after police showed him a photo from the Facebook account from which he previously received messages.

Flowers was sentenced in 2015 in connection with a drive-by shooting in Payne-Phalen that police described as gang related. No one was injured in that case. He received a juvenile sentence of nine to 18 months and a stayed adult sentence of three years, according to the county attorney’s office.