A 50-year-old Burton man was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole on Wednesday after being found guilty of a 2009 home invasion.

A jury convicted Calvin M. Shedrick of armed robbery, first-degree burglary and high-and-aggravated assault. Judge J. Ernest Kinard sentenced Shedrick to life without parole, a mandatory sentence based on his prior record.

On Oct. 28, 2009, Shedrick robbed a Roseida Road home at gunpoint, stealing $30 in cash and about 10 dime bags of marijuana from the home’s occupants.

After one of the victims initially refused to hand over drugs, Shedrick fired one shot, narrowly missing a 5-month-old boy who was being shielded by his father.

At the time of his arrest, Shedrick was on federal parole for the 1998 bank robbery of Wachovia in Beaufort. He has a string of additional prior convictions in South Carolina dating back to 1989, including burglary, grand larceny and robbery.

The case was prosecuted by assistant solicitor Meredith Bannon, one of four attorneys assigned to the Beaufort County Career Criminal Prosecution Team.

“Shedrick’s idea was that he could keep on robbing drug dealers and no one would care,” Bannon said. “The reality is that it doesn’t matter who the victim is. We don’t tolerate committing crimes against anybody.”

“In this incident, there was a very real chance an innocent person – an infant – could have been injured or worse,” she continued. “The bottom line is that Calvin Shedrick is an opportunist, a career criminal who wouldn’t hesitate to victimize or hurt anybody so long as he thought he could get away with it.”