Ex-NBAer Shawn Kemp gets 30 days of home monitoring for ’23 shooting
Tacoma, Washington. – The former NBA star, Shawn Kemp, was sentenced on Friday to 30 days of electronic surveillance at home for shooting two men inside a vehicle in a parking lot of the Washington State Mall.
Kemp must start monitoring at home within two weeks, the Seattle Times reported. It must also serve a year of supervision of the Correctional Services department and carry out 240 hours of community service.
Prosecutors recommended that the All-Star six times be sentenced to nine months in prison, a year of surveillance and compensation.
Judge Michael Schwartz from the Superior Court of the County of Pierce concluded that the circumstances surrounding the crime justifying a lesser sentence, allowing Kemp to avoid incarceration.
Kemp looked at the ceiling and breathed a breath of air when Schwartz announced the trouble. He then repeatedly made the sign of the cross with his hand.
Kemp, who played for the Supersonics of Seattle from 1989 to 1997, pleaded guilty to an accusation by assault in May as part of a plea agreement.
No one was injured during the filming of March 2023.
Kemp said he had acted in self -defense and was a fire after one of the men pulled him from the inside of their Toyota 4Runner vehicle.
The defense also said that the two men that Kemp had shot the shooting by stealing Kemp’s truck, his mobile phone and his memories in Seattle. The judge accepted.
Using a phone follow -up application, Kemp was located and briefly tried to speak to the driver of the 4runner who was running a casino parking lot, according to the trial file. The men of the vehicle then threw some of the personal effects of Kemp but kept the phone, said the brief.
Kemp later saw that his phone was near the Tacoma shopping center. He led there, spotted the same 4runner and “expressed his understandable frustration” with the driver, according to the memory. The man on the rear seat “pulled a fist gun to Mr. Kemp. Mr. Kemp turned over and tried to deactivate the Toyota. It did not work,” the document said.
The 4runner fled and when the vehicle was found abandoned a few days later, an empty case was found inside, but there was no firearm, according to court documents.
After the hearing, Kemp said in an interview that “the last three years have been difficult”. He said he was planning to be a defender of armed violence, especially among young people.
“Think twice,” he said. “Think twice when you become crazy. Think twice when you get angry a little.”
Several people sent letters of support to the court on behalf of Kemp. Thirty people attended the audience, including his pastor and former NFL star, Marshawn Lynch.
Kemp made his debut in the NBA during the 1989-90 season at the age of 20 that has never played university basketball. He also played for the Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers and Orlando Magic and was known for his high -flying dunks.
