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Rico C. Holmes II, 26, of Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced Tuesday by York County Judge Michael E. Bortner to 25 1/2 to 51 years in state prison on charges that include criminal attempt at first degree murder.

(York County Prison.)

A former U.S. Army private charged with shooting a 24-year-old man during a home invasion is facing up to half a century behind bars.

Rico C. Holmes II, 26, of Bethesda, Maryland, was sentenced Tuesday by York County Judge Michael E. Bortner to 25 1/2 to 51 years in state prison on charges that include criminal attempt at first degree murder.

Holmes, who was stationed at the Walter Reed National Medical Military Center, was charged in relation to the shooting, as well as two home invasions, one of which involved binding two 17-year-olds together with duct tape and stealing numerous guns.

According to court records, it all started with a 2013 disagreement at a party in which Holmes punched a friend of the shooting victim.

Then in December of that year, Holmes and several others broke into the Franklin Township home of the victim he punched.

They were brandishing guns and baseball bats when they bound two 17-year-olds together with duct tape and stole numerous weapons, police said.

Roughly two hours later, approaching 1 a.m., police say Holmes and his accomplices broke into the shooting victim's home on South Baltimore Street where they found him sleeping inside. During a struggle, Holmes shot the victim twice in the back, according to court documents.

The victim later told police that prior to the incident, he had received a text message from Holmes stating he was "coming to shoot him," police said.

Holmes' co-conspirators, all of Alexandria, Virginia, included:

Leonard Hayes, 21, who was sentenced in September to 5 1/2 to 11 years in prison.

Andre Highsmith, 21, who was sentenced in August to 2 to 4 years in prison.

And Joseph Henderson Jr., 20, was sentenced in January 2015 to 6 to 12 years in prison.

Holmes had first pleaded guilty in November 2014, then withdrew those guilty pleas, but he pleaded guilty again to numerous charges from two separate cases in July.

The charges he pleaded guilty to include criminal attempt at first degree murder, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal trespass, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and theft.