Kentucky man sentenced to 17 years for shooting at Louisville mayoral candidate in 2022

Greenberg, who was elected politician aboriginal that year, said successful tribunal Friday that helium saw a antheral helium didn’t admit travel to the doorway of his run headquarters, and erstwhile a staffer tried to prosecute the antheral successful conversation, “I saw a weapon pointed straight astatine maine and I’ll ne'er hide the dependable of those weapon shots fired,” Greenberg told the court. Greenberg said successful the ensuing days, helium felt “fear and disorder that made maine physically numb for days.”

This undated photograph provided by Louisville Metro Department of Corrections shows Quintez Brown, who was convicted for shooting astatine Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg erstwhile helium was a campaigner successful 2022. (AP)

Brown, 24, pleaded blameworthy successful July to national charges of interfering with a federally protected enactment and discharging a firearm successful narration with a transgression of violence. The plea statement called for a sentencing scope of 15 to astir 18 years.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton said Brown’s onslaught was premeditated and was a menace to the community’s governmental system. He ordered Brown beryllium connected supervised merchandise for 5 years aft helium is retired of prison.

Brown, a erstwhile standout pupil and Louisville paper columnist who was moving for metropolis assembly astatine the time, apologized to Greenberg and his unit who were contiguous astatine the Feb. 14, 2022, shooting.

“When I changeable that gun, I taught everybody a incorrect lesson,” helium said, looking successful the absorption of Greenberg, who was sitting successful the beforehand enactment of the assemblage with his wife. “I privation to archer those who were successful the country that I’m sorry. I can’t judge I caused each this.”

After the shooting, Brown was charged with attempted execution but was bailed retired of jailhouse a fewer days aboriginal by a nonprofit bail money group, outraging Greenberg and different metropolis leaders. At the time, Greenberg said it was “nearly intolerable to judge that idiosyncratic tin effort execution connected Monday and locomotion retired of jailhouse connected Wednesday.”

Federal officials investigated the case, and successful April of that twelvemonth unsealed an indictment charging Brown. Federal prosecutors said Brown searched the Internet for Greenberg’s run headquarters, on with searches of his family, according to a sentencing memo from national prosecutors. Brown bought a weapon and adjacent went to Greenberg’s location successful the nighttime earlier the shooting, but prosecutors judge helium had a occupation with the weapon jamming.

So Brown bought different weapon from a pawn store the adjacent time and traveled to Greenberg’s run office, wherever helium fired aggregate shots astatine Greenberg, who was sitting astatine a desk, according to prosecutors.

Defense attorneys for Brown pleaded for a lighter sentence, arguing that the shooting was aberrant behaviour from a idiosyncratic suffering a intelligence unwellness occurrence who had not anterior transgression record.

Brown inactive faces charges successful authorities tribunal of attempted execution and wanton endangerment. Those cases person been connected clasp portion the national lawsuit proceeded, but they are not expected to adhd to the magnitude of Brown’s sentence.