A teenager was sentenced to 45 years in prison today for the 2004 Halloween shooting of a St. Charles youth center supervisor.

Timothy Echols, 17, of Aurora, was acting on orders from gang leaders to kill a member of a rival gang member. Echols was 14 years old at the time.

While riding in the passenger seat of a car in Aurora Township, Echols fired several shots into a vehicle he thought contained the rival gang member. Instead, he shot 34-year-old Duranthony Evans, also of Aurora.

Evans was an employee of the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles.

Echols was arrested in November 2005 after an investigation by the Kane County Sheriff’s Office. In 2006, a judge granted a state request to transfer Echols from a juvenile court to an adult one.

The driver of the vehicle in while Echols was riding at the time of Evans’ murder, Eric Sanchez, 26, of Aurora, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Oct. 13, 2006, with a 15-year sentence for his role.