An Alabama man was sentenced to nearly two years in prison on Tuesday for storming the U.S. Capitol and breaking into the Senate floor with a knife to his hip and a gaping wound to his face.

A police officer shot Joshua Matthew Black in the left cheek with crowd control ammunition outside the Capitol during the riot on January 6, 2021. The bloody hole in his face did not stop Black from occupying the Senate with other rioters after lawmakers cleared the chamber cleared.

Black was a notorious perpetrator during the attack on the Capitol, prosecutors wrote in a police report. The nation was shocked and appalled by the events of January 6, and perhaps no other incident caused as much outrage and fear as the occupation of the Senate Chamber by Black and other rioters.

Prosecutors had recommended a five-year prison sentence for Black, 47, of Leeds, Ala., a Birmingham suburb.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Black to 22 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, according to court documents.

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Black did not testify before the judge convicted him in January of five charges, including three felonies, after hearing a trial without a jury. Jackson also acquitted him of one charge, obstructing congressional proceedings.

Black joined the crowd that disrupted the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to ratify President Biden’s 2020 election victory. But the judge concluded prosecutors could not prove that Black knowingly intended to prosecute. hinder or hinder.

Defense attorney Clark Fleckinger said Black, an evangelical Christian, was motivated by his religious beliefs. Black believed that God had directed him to go to Washington so that he could plead the blood of Jesus on the Senate floor to promote atonement by Congress for what he perceived to be the transgressions of [a] corrupt Democratic Party and Republican Party,” Fleckinger wrote in a lawsuit.

More than 1,000 people have been charged with riot-related crimes at the Capitol. About 500 of them have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from seven days to more than 14 years. Nineteen have received prison sentences of five years or more, according to an analysis of court records by the Associated Press.

Black, who runs a lawn-mowing business, traveled alone to Washington to attend then-President Trump’s Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. He joined the crowd marching toward the Capitol before Trump finished his speech.

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According to prosecutors, Black, armed with a concealed knife, was the first rioter to breach the Lower West Terrace barricade.

This brazen act undoubtedly emboldened other rioters, who soon overran the entire Lower West Terrace, they wrote.

Black then joined the crowd at the West Plaza, where police shot him with less-than-lethal ammunition, prosecutors said.

Rioters near Black became enraged that he had been shot, and harassed and assaulted officers, they wrote.

After entering the Capitol through the East Rotunda doors, he broke into the Senate chamber and remained inside for more than 20 minutes. Black rummaged through a desk assigned to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and posed for photos on the Senate podium. Before leaving, he joined other rioters in a raucous prayer-style demonstration “led by Jacob Chansley, the self-proclaimed QAnon shaman,” prosecutors said.

Black later told the FBI that while in the Senate chamber he had a hunting knife on his hip in a scabbard under his coat. FBI agents found the knife at Black’s home when they arrested him on January 14, 2021.

He was imprisoned in Washington after his arrest and remained incarcerated until a judge ordered his release on April 24, 2021. He will be given credit for the prison sentence he served.