The Virginian-Pilot
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VIRGINIA BEACH
A Portsmouth man was ordered Wednesday to serve 29 years in a Beach home invasion that left one person shot in the head.
Circuit Judge Patricia L. West sentenced Randell Thigpen-Knight to 45 years, then suspended 16 years of that time. Thigpen-Knight pleaded guilty in 2008 to robbery, malicious wounding and use of a firearm.
Thigpen-Knight, 26, already is serving a 24-year sentence after being convicted in Suffolk in a separate case. The Virginia Beach sentence will be served along with that sentence.
Thigpen-Knight and two other defendants in the case, Christopher Lee Joyner Jr. and Ephraim Lamar McCoy III, broke into a Virginia Beach home May 7, 2008.
One person was shot in the head and another was dragged from room to room and pistol-whipped.
McCoy, who was the shooter, has been sentenced to serve 13 years in connection with the case. A jury has recommended that Joyner be sentenced to 83 years. His sentencing is set for Sept. 29.
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