A Selma resident pled guilty to two charges Friday in the Dallas County Courthouse.

Brandon Ward was sentenced 20 years to run concurrent for first-degree assault and third-degree robbery of Joseph Childers. Ward’s attorney, P. Vaughan Russell, said the first 10 years will be served in federal prison.

Circuit Court Judge Collins A. Pettaway did the sentencing in his courtroom.

Ward was sentenced 10 years in U.S. Federal Court on Jan. 23 for being in possession of firearms after a felony conviction. Dallas County District Attorney Michael Jackson said Ward

received a 10-year sentence for being a felon in possession when he shot Childers.

In Federal court, Ward pled guilty to possession of a High Point, 9mm pistol found in his possession on Sept. 14, 2017.  Before September, 2017, Ward had been convicted of three felonies in Dallas County Circuit Court: first-degree burglary, first-degree receiving stolen property and discharging a firearm into an occupied building. The incident took place on the 1900 block of Tippett Drive.

“We have gotten another gunslinger off the streets,” Jackson said.