ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis man has been sentenced to decades behind bars in connection with a deadly shooting on Christmas Eve.

On Tuesday, 22-year-old Keon Martez Cannady was sentenced to 25 years in prison over the shooting death of 20-year-old Shawn Kennedy.

Cannady pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a weapon after his trial began.

Investigators say, on Dec. 24, 2023, Kennedy was found shot and unresponsive in the living room of a home in the 900 block of Talmage Avenue, located in the city's Forest Park Southeast neighborhood. He was later pronounced deceased.

Witnesses told police that a gunman fired multiple shots toward the front of the home.

Detectives then obtained surveillance video with audio, showing several people at the residence asking Cannad

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