JEFFERSON COUNTY — Judge Jerry Crisel handed down a 40-year prison sentence Thursday afternoon to a 56-year-old Mt. Vernon man convicted of robbing a Huck’s store and gunpoint in 2021 and then shooting at a police officer responding to the robbery call.

Fredrick Goss was sentenced in Jeffersons County Court to 40 years on each count to be served concurrently. He’ll have to serve 85 percent of his sentence.

A second jury convicted Goss in December on the two Class X felony charges. He had been struck in the exchange of gunfire with the Mt. Vernon police officer when fleeing the Huck’s robbery and was still using a wheelchair as he recovered from his injuries during the first jury trial.

When returning from a lunch break during that trial, a corrections officer was moving Goss from the squad car to the wheelchair in the sally port of the courthouse. Goss is accused of taking the officer’s sidearm during a brief struggle and then firing that weapon at the officer.

A Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputy reportedly witnessed the attack on security cameras and ran to the sally port where he shot and subdued Goss. He was again hospitalized and the first jury was dismissed.

The second jury was then convened in December and convicted Goss on both charges. Since his second release from the hospital, he’s been held in the Marion County Jail where authorities have reported he’s been combative with their correctional officers as well.

Goss will have to return to Jefferson County on February 28 to be arraigned on charges of attempted murder, aggravated discharge of a firearm at a peace officer, and disarming a peace officer for the 2022 incident in the courthouse sally port.