A man will spend decades behind bars for shooting a 13-year-old girl at a South Carolina Walmart in what was described as a random act of violence.

Stephen Foreman, 35, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison with long-term mental health treatment at the South Carolina Department of Corrections, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show. He was also sentenced to five years for possession of a weapon during a violent crime.

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Foreman had pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder in the shooting of Ashton Rickard.

According to a civil lawsuit filed against Foreman by Ashley Rickard, the teenager's mother, on June 7, 2023, the mother and daugh

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