A teenager accused of shooting at Nebraska State Patrol troopers is headed to prison.
Shane Kildow was sentenced to six to eight years in prison in connection with a pursuit near Valley in February 2017.
Kildow was sentenced Wednesday to four to five years for Attempted Assault on an Officer with an additional two to three years added to his sentence for a weapons charge. Those sentences are to run one after the other. He was also sentenced to one to two years for theft, with that sentence running concurrently to the others.
The incident happened on February 21, 2017 when a trooper initiated a pursuit of a car on Highway 275 after clocking the vehicle at 93 MPH in a 65 zone. The trooper would testify in court that he heard several gunshots and saw muzzle flashes coming from the chase vehicle.
When the trooper ran the plates, the vehicle came back stolen out of Omaha. Authorities said the trooper tried to stop the car but the suspect fled and fired several shots. Neither the trooper nor his patrol car were hit.
The chase vehicle went through a field as the driver tried to shake the pursuit but eventually returned to the road and crashed near Reichmuth Circle and Fort Circle on the southwest edge of Valley. The suspect, later identified as Kildow, then ran from officers, jumping a fence near a Menard's Supply Yard.
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