A man who shot a pregnant woman after she rejected his advances in a suburban grocery store was sentenced to nearly half a century in prison, the DuPage County State's Attorney announced Friday.

42-year-old former Chicago man Lawrence Grant was sentenced to 48 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections Friday, months after a four-day-long trial concluded in late May.

Around 7 p.m. on January 28, 2022, Willowbrook police responded to the scene of a crashed vehicle on Route 83 and found a pregnant woman with a gunshot wound in her back, authorities said.

The woman was transported to a local hospital where the baby was delivered while she was in surgery. She was eight months pregnant at the time. Both the victim and her baby survived and recovered, police said.

Police learned that pr

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