A 19-year-old refugee will spend at least the next three years in prison for accidentally shooting a 17-year-old in the back, paralyzing her.
Lancaster County District Court Judge Jodi Nelson gave Sabri S. Ibrahim a 6- to 10-year sentence Thursday for shooting Treneyce R. Thompson, now 18, on June 19.
With good time, he’ll finish his sentence in three years.
Ibrahim was trying to buy the gun from 20-year-old Deavonni Galloway and was checking it out in the back seat of Galloway’s car when the gun went off.
The bullet blasted through the front passenger seat and tore into Thompson’s back.
“I’m sorry. My heart cries out to Treneyce,” Ibrahim told Nelson in court on Thursday. “It was an accident.”
Defense attorney Carlos Monzon asked Nelson to give Ibrahim a 1 1/2- to 3- year sentence to run with time he was already doing on a drug charge.
“Mr. Ibrahim never had the intent to cause harm to anybody,” Monzon said. “He probably didn’t even mean to shoot that gun.
“This is a case about an accident.”
Yes and no, Judge Nelson countered. True, Ibrahim probably didn’t mean to shoot a gun and hurt Thompson. But he did try to buy a gun illegally while out on bond from the drug charges, and undoubtedly, she said, he was going to do something “sinister” with it.
Wow, that sounds like the judge punished the guy for things he hasn't done yet, possible future crimes.
Is that right? Can he do that?
Wow, that sounds like the judge punished the guy for things he hasn't done yet, possible future crimes.
Is that right? Can he do that?
I don't think 3 years (time off for good behavior) is enough for crippling someone for life.
ReplyDeleteFirst calling him a teen, while accurate, is misleading. He's a full up grown man, and subject to adult responsibilities. He was making an illegal purchase and violating the restrictions of his bond release.
ReplyDeleteI believe if he deviates too far from sentencing guidelines, the judges decision can be appealed. And the judges statement might count against him in an appeal. Hard to have any sympathy for him though.
You're right, I should have called him a Nebraska 19-year-old.
DeleteI doubt very much if the appeals courts will have any more sympathy for this guy than the sentencing judge did, not with a name like Sabri S. Ibrahim.
The source requires me to take a survey that I'm not willing to take, so I can't see the original article. Why did you tag this with "Islamophobia"? Being a refugee with a Middle-Eastern name doesn't make someone a Muslim, and nothing about what the judge said in your posting discusses religion.
ReplyDeleteYou're really gonna argue whether or not a guy who looks like that with a last name like his would be taken for a Muslim? And you wonder why people like Shannon Watts don't take your comments.
DeleteHe could be Christian, for example. And given the fact that he also faces drug charges, it's likely that the judge considered him potentially to be part of a gang or involved in other criminal activity.
DeleteYou so often jump to the conclusion that you want to reach, but you should stop and consider other possibilities, especially when you have no evidence supporting the cherished narrative that you believe in here.
Listen to the site lying criminal coward.
DeleteMaking all sorts of GUESSES with no evidence at all. Typical for the ass hole lying criminal coward.
Anonymous, I am making an assessment of what's possible here. Mikeb made a definitive statement by calling this "Islamophobia," but the evidence doesn't necessarily support that conclusion.
DeleteYou're right, Greg. He could be Japanese for all I know. My suggestion that he's Muslim and may have paid for that in post-9/11 America was totally absurd.
DeleteMikeb, do you seriously believe that the drug charge had nothing to do with this?
DeleteIn other words you are blowing it out of your ass, as usual.
DeleteGreg, did I say the drug charge had NOTHING to do with it and it was ONLY about ismamophobia? No. And you knew that.
DeleteWhy do you have to mischaracterize what I say? Isn't what I actually do say bad enough for you.
Mikeb, do you know the difference between a question and a statement? I asked what you believe, since you labelled this Islamophobia without evidence to support that.
DeleteYou don't know the difference between a lie and the truth, which is why you always use lies to make your points, then wonder why people call myou a lying criminal coward. HA HA HA HA HA HA
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