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Cir Allen Keith Glover, left, talks to his attorney, Michael Clarke, on Jan. 17, 2025, in Douglas County District Court.

A Douglas County judge on Friday sentenced a teen to 10 years in prison for murdering a 17-year-old boy last summer.

Nineteen-year-old Cir Allen Keith Glover, who will turn 20 on Saturday, pleaded no contest in July to reckless second-degree murder in the shooting death of Isaiah Neal, 17.

Glover shot Neal, a friend from childhood, multiple times outside Neal’s home on Alabama Street on June 13, 2024.

Glover’s plea deal included a recommendation by the parties for him to serve 120 months, or 10 years, in prison, but Judge Stacey Donovan was not bound by that recommendation. A 10-year sentence represented a downward departure in the state’s sentencing guidelines. Under those guidelines, Glover faced a range of 138 to 154 months.

At Glover’s preliminary hearing last fall, the state said that evidence at trial would show that Neal was shot in the back seven times after Glover paid a late-night visit to the family’s apartment.

Glover was originally charged with second-degree murder, but after the preliminary hearing last October, Donovan ruled that probable cause existed for a first-degree murder charge.

Glover pleaded to second-degree reckless murder on July 7, the day his trial was set to begin.

Douglas County Senior Assistant District Attorney Ricardo Leal represented the state at sentencing, along with Senior Assistant DA Eve Kemple. Glover was represented by appointed defense attorney Michael Clarke.

This is a developing story and will be updated.