Man Who Shot Into Home With Three Children Is Sentenced to 15 Years

A Wentzville man who fired four shots into a Lake Saint Louis home with three children inside was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.

Lamon Clark, 20, pleaded guilty Friday to shooting through a sliding glass door June 30, 2012 at a home on Normandy Court in Lake Saint Louis. Three children, ages 8, 10 and 12 were sitting on a nearby couch, police said.

St. Charles County Circuit Judge Richard K. Zerr sentenced Clark to 15 years in prison for shooting a firearm into a habitable structure, seven years each on three counts of endangering a child and three years for armed criminal action.

Clark, of the 1400 block of Kathleen Drive in Wentzville, had been charged with first-degree assault, but pleaded guilty to shooting into the home.

Lake Saint Louis Police said Clark went to the home with four other men June 30 to shoot a man who assaulted his brother at a party in Moscow Mills.

Another man, Jarred McGersky, and three others accompanied Clark to the home, according to court documents. Police said McGersky told them Clark was mad because other people were home, but he did not think the man he was looking for was home.

One of the men gave Clark a .25 cal handgun, police said.