MOBILE, Alabama -- A murder suspect who admitted stealing a pickup truck at gunpoint last year from a man who had been napping will spend 11 years in prison for carjacking, a federal judge decided today.

William Darnel Kidd, 25, of Mobile, pleaded guilty in October to carjacking and possession of a gun during the commission of a violent crime.

Kidd has admitted that during the carjacking he approached a pickup truck at Integrated Waste on West Main Street in Prichard at 4:20 a.m. July 2, 2009. He pointed a handgun in the face of a man who was napping inside the vehicle during a break from his job.

Kidd ordered the out of the vehicle and made him strip to his underwear, according to court records. As if that weren't bad enough, the robber then called the victim back to help him when he had trouble starting the truck, prosecutors have said.

Chief U.S. District Judge William Steele followed the recommendation under a plea bargain and sentenced Kidd to 4 years in prison for the carjacking followed up seven years form the gun offense. He also ordered that the defendant spend 5 years on supervised release after his prison sentence.

"There’s no question that this is a serious offense," the judge said. "The taking of property at gunpoint is always a serious offense."

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Kidd also faces charges of murder and attempted murder stemming from shootings that occurred at about the same time as the carjacking.

Police contend that Kidd fatally shot William Hampton later the same day of the carjacking and used the pickup truck 3 days after that to participate in a drive-by shooting that left another man paralyzed.

Kidd told Steele on today that he realizes his actions caused the carjacking victim grief.

"But at the time, I didn’t intend to harm him personally per se," he said.

According to court records, the carjacking victim immediately called Prichard police and told them that he recognized Kidd from their time as students together at Chastang Middle School.

Kidd said he was having financial problems and viewed the carjacking as a way to address the problem. "And that’s something that I didn’t take into consideration, that I was hurting someone, and I didn’t have time to review that, and that’s something that I promise to never do again,” he said.