Spokane man sentenced to 10 years in prison for paralyzing woman in shooting

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SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane man who paralyzed a woman in a shooting in May has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

20-year-old Gregory Lynch plead guilty to one count of first-degree assault in the shooting. He shot a woman multiple times inside a home in the Bemiss neighborhood.

Lynch will spend 10 years in prison followed by 36 months of community custody.

He was also issued a lifetime no-contact order with the victim and ordered to pay restitution for the victim’s medical expenses.

Lynch has three prior felony convictions for assault.

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