Judge Sentences Aurora Man to 13 Years for Naperville Paintball Gun Stickup

An Aurora man who wielded a paintball gun when robbing a Naperville convenience store late last year has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.

A judge told the apologetic suspect, 21-year-old Gerald Norris, that he found a two-minute surveillance video of the crime "terrifying" — one of the reasons he tacked on seven years to the felony's minimum sentence. The felony robbery charge was also Norris's third, according to the Daily Herald.

"Norris, wearing a ski mask and armed with a realistic-looking paintball gun, entered the 7-Eleven on the 1600 block of north Route 59 about 2:40 a.m. Dec. 5," the Daily Herald article said. "He hopped the counter and jammed a gun in the back of the male clerk, Manu Patel, as Patel emptied two cash registers of about $300 cash into a bag."

Norris reportedly continued threatening Patel as he emptied the register and said he would "come back and kill" him if he alerted police.

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