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By Maggie O’Brien

World-Herald staff writer

The mother of Nikko Jenkins will spend most of the next decade in prison for buying the ammunition her son used in a killing spree last summer.

Lori Jenkins wiped away tears and shook her head as U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp handed down two 10-year sentences, ordering that the terms be served at the same time. With time served and other factors, Jenkins could serve a few years less than that.

“I’ve been persecuted and slandered into the monster I am not,” said Jenkins. “There’s not a happy ending ... for anybody. But I’m a victim too.”

In response, Smith Camp said Jenkins was a threat to society.

A federal jury in April found Jenkins guilty of two counts of being a felon in possession of ammunition.

Tuesday, she was in court for sentencing and for a defense motion to reduce her sentence, a request Smith Camp denied. Lori Jenkins had confessed several times to buying the ammunition that authorities say her son used in the Aug. 11 slayings of Jorge Cajiga-Ruiz and Juan Uribe-Pena, the Aug. 19 slaying of Curtis Bradford, and the Aug. 21 shooting of Andrea Kruger.