A South Facet man who shot a very good Samaritan throughout a confrontation with a parking enforcement employee close to Oakwood Seashore two summers in the past was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in jail.
William Hunter, 56, pleaded responsible to aggravated battery by discharging a firearm in trade for the sentence from Choose Thomas Byrne. Prosecutors dropped six different felonies, together with 4 counts of tried homicide.
The case centered on a July 8, 2023, taking pictures within the Oakwood Seashore car parking zone alongside the 3900 block of South Lake Shore Drive.
Prosecutors stated Hunter was in his minivan when he noticed a metropolis income employee getting ready to subject tickets within the lot. Hunter allegedly leaned out of his automobile and shouted, “What the f*** are you doing?”
The employee ignored him, however Hunter acquired out, walked as much as her, and yelled insults, officers stated.
That’s when a 44-year-old driver entered the lot and tried to calm him down.
“He tried to calm the defendant down and make an announcement that the employee was simply doing her job,” a prosecutor stated shortly after Hunter’s arrest.
As a substitute of calming down, Hunter shoved the person, punched him within the face, after which pulled a handgun from his hoodie pocket, prosecutors stated. He fired repeatedly, hitting the nice Samaritan within the face, stomach, arm, and facet.
The meter maid ducked behind a automobile because the gunfire started. She later offered detectives with a partial license plate quantity that helped police determine Hunter’s minivan.
The sufferer was hospitalized in crucial situation and underwent at the very least 4 surgical procedures.
Paramedics discovered a 9-millimeter pistol within the sufferer’s waistband, however prosecutors stated all shell casings on the scene have been .380 caliber and that the witness noticed solely Hunter hearth.
Hunter should serve at the very least 85 % of the sentence earlier than being eligible for launch. His earlier convictions embrace DUI in 2015, housebreaking in 2012, and illegal use of a weapon by a felon in 2008.
