A woman found guilty of participating in a North Omaha gunbattle last year has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison.
Brandi Walker, 29, of Omaha, pleaded no contest to attempted first-degree assault and use of a firearm to commit a felony in Douglas County District Court. In late May, she was sentenced to five to 10 years on each charge with the sentences to be served one after the other.
Under Nebraska sentencing guidelines, Walker must serve half of the sentences before being considered for parole. She will be credited with 351 days in jail.
Walker is one of three people who were charged in the June 3 incident that occurred near 31st Street and Ames Avenue. Matthew Berg, 38, of Omaha, pleaded no contest third-degree assault and obstructing a police officer. He will be sentenced in July.
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A Douglas County District Court judge sentenced Jahari Love, 27, to three years of probation earlier in May after he was found guilty of an attempted felony. Prosecutors dismissed a charge of using a firearm to commit a felony.
Last year, 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.
Three officers ran across Ames Avenue toward Love, and two of them fired their service weapons as they approached. Love was wounded in the right wrist, but police did not say if he was shot by officers or someone inside the home returning fire.
The two officers who fired their service weapons, Capt. Jay Leavitt and Lt. Owen Gregg, were on placed 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€
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