Chicago, IL – A Chicago man will spend the next decade in federal prison after being sentenced this week for illegally possessing a firearm and shooting another man multiple times in the city’s Noble Square neighborhood.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, Angel Sosa, 27, of Chicago, was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
Prosecutors said the shooting occurred on the evening of June 8, 2021, near the intersection of North Noble Street and West Walton Street in Noble Square, located on Chicago’s Near West Side in Cook County. Authorities stated that Sosa possessed a loaded semiautomatic handgun equipped with an extended magazine and fired more than a dozen shots at a man standing nearby.
The victim was seriously wounded but survived, officials confirmed.
Chicago police officers arrested Sosa near the scene shortly after the shooting. Court records show he has remained in law enforcement custody since his arrest.
Federal prosecutors noted that Sosa had multiple prior felony convictions, including a firearm-related offense in state court. He was reportedly on parole at the time of the 2021 shooting.
The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Martha M. Pacold on Thursday, December 4, 2025. The case was announced by U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros and Douglas S. DePodesta, Special Agent-in-Charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office.
The Chicago Police Department assisted in the investigation, and the case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Branka Cimesa.
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