CLAYTON • A St. Louis man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for attacking a Home Depot hot dog vendor in Ferguson in 2013.

A St. Louis County jury in March found Darnell Hollings, 25, of the 2200 block of Sullivan Avenue, guilty of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. The jury acquitted Hollings on charges of second-degree assault and armed criminal action for allegedly attacking someone who intervened in the hammer beating.

Hollings was one of four men charged in the hammer attack of a hot dog vendor at a Home Depot at 10930 New Halls Ferry Road in August 2013.

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Stanley Wallach sentenced Hollings.

Last year, St. Louis prosecutors, without explanation, dropped a first-degree murder charge against Hollings, who had been accused of fatally shooting Carnez Winslett, 36, at Winslett's birthday party in 2013 in the 5000 block of Durant Avenue.