One of two men charged in the 2020 shooting of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner pleaded guilty Wednesday, avoiding a jury trial that was scheduled to begin next week.

Jerrion McKinney, 28, took a loaded rifle to a makeshift blockade set up near the burned-down Atlanta Wendy’s where the little girl was shot five years ago, but prosecutors said he did not kill her.

McKinney entered Alford pleas to aggravated assault, gang and weapons charges and was given a 40-year sentence with 20 to serve. He will get credit for time he’s already spent in jail.

Turner was killed July 4, 2020, when the Jeep she and her mother were riding in drove past the armed group set up near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by an Atlanta police officer weeks earlier.

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