Former police chief sentenced to 18 years

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- A former small town police chief who survived a 1991 sniper rampage that killed four people has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for sex offenses involving a 9-year-old girl.

Former Jamestown Police Chief Russell Borts, 40, was sentenced Monday to 18 years for statutory sodomy and seven years for attempted child molestation. Boone County Circuit Court Judge Frank Conley ordered the sentences to run concurrently.

The charges involved a 9-year-old girl who was Borts' stepdaughter when the crime occurred in March 2001.

Borts denied the charges in his trial and was supported by the child's mother, who was Borts' wife at the time.

Borts was a Moniteau County sheriff's deputy in December 1991 when he was seriously wounded in a sniper rampage by James Johnson. He was executed by lethal injection Jan. 9 at Potosi Correctional Center.