The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that 41-year old Richard J. Klemis, a British citizen, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for selling the heroin which killed 19-year old Tyler McKinney on February 23, 2011.   Klemis was sentenced on Friday, May 8, 2015 in U.S. District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois by Judge David R. Herndon.  Klemis had earlier been found guilty of nine federal charges on February 4, 2015, following an 8-day jury trial.  At the sentence hearing, Judge Herndon described Klemis as “evil and diabolical” and called him “a one-man drug store for high school kids at a party.”   Judge Herndon also noted that Klemis was “a drug predator who preyed on children who were not yet capable of making reasoned choices.”   In addition to providing the heroin which killed Tyler McKinney, Klemis was also sentenced for nearly killing a second man; selling heroin to four other O’Fallon High School students; and employing a 16-year old to assist him in distributing heroin.