Warner Robins man sentenced to 35 years, 10 in prison, for armed robbery

Prosecutors say Jeremiah Hall pointed a firearm at the teenager, struck him in the forehead and left him beside the road.

WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 20-year-old Warner Robins man was sentenced to 35 years Monday after pleading guilty to robbing and striking a teenager with a firearm, according to the Houston County District Attorney’s Office.

Jeremiah Jethoran Hall pleaded guilty in Houston County Superior Court to armed robbery, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Chief Judge Katherine K. Lumsden sentenced Hall to 35 years, with the first 10 years to serve in prison without the possibility of parole.

Hall had been scheduled to stand trial later in November.

According to the district attorney’s office, Hall and the teenage victim agreed to meet March 20 to smoke marijuana.

While they were traveling in a vehicle, prosecutors say the unnamed co-defendant pretended the vehicle was having mechanical trouble and stopped.

Hall then pointed a firearm at the teenager and demanded his cellphone and bag, according to the release.

Prosecutors say Hall struck the teenager in the forehead with the firearm when the victim did not respond quickly enough. Hall and the co-defendant then drove away with the teenager’s belongings, leaving him beside the road.

The teenager used another person’s cellphone to call 911 and provided descriptions of the suspects and their vehicle.

Law enforcement officers later found the vehicle with both suspects inside, according to the district attorney’s office.

Prosecutors say the co-defendant remained in the vehicle while Hall ran. Officers arrested Hall after a short foot chase.

Investigators found the firearm and the teenager’s property inside the vehicle, according to the release.

The district attorney’s office says Hall was already a convicted felon after pleading guilty to a nonviolent theft offense in 2025.

“This defendant is only twenty years old, and he has already established himself as a violent felon willing to use a firearm to prey upon other young people in our community,” District Attorney Eric Edwards said. “This was not some spontaneous argument that got out of hand; it was a calculated ambush in which the victim was lured into a vulnerable position, threatened at gunpoint, struck in the head with a firearm, robbed, and then abandoned on the side of the road.”