An Omaha man who was wounded while involved in a gunbattle on Ames Avenue last summer has been sentenced to three years probation.
A Douglas County District Court judge sentenced Jahari Love, 27, to three years of probation Wednesday after he was found guilty of an attempted felony. Prosecutors dismissed a charge of using a firearm to commit a felony.
Love is one of three people who were charged in the June 3 incident that occurred near 31st Street and Ames Avenue. Brandi Walker, 29. and Matthew Berg, 38, both of Omaha, were each charged with attempted felony and use of weapon to commit a felony.
Walker was found guilty and will be sentenced in May. A trial date for Berg has not been set.
Omaha police officers were leaving a community meeting about 2:30 p.m. when they heard gunshots. The officers reported seeing a man, later identified as Love, standing outside a vehicle in a strip mall parking lot with a long gun, shooting into a nearby home.
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Three officers ran across Ames Avenue toward Love, and two of them fired their service weapons as they approached. Police have not determined if Love was shot by responding officers or by someone inside the home returning fire.
The two officers who fired their service weapons, Capt. Jay Leavitt and Lt. Owen Gregg, were on paid administrative leave. Both men were later returned to active duty.
Deputy Omaha Police Chief Thomas Schaffer said at the time that the officers appeared to have “stumbled onto an active gun battle between the two groups.â€
“Immediately upon getting (Love) in custody, he and some of the witnesses nearby gave indications the house across the street was actually shooting at them, and that’s what started it,†Schaffer said.
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