Former Seattle SuperSonics All-Star Shawn Kemp will spend 30 days underneath digital residence monitoring and should carry out 240 hours of neighborhood service after pleading responsible to expenses in a 2023 case.
Kemp pleaded responsible in Could to 1 depend of second-degree assault in relation to a taking pictures incident outdoors a Tacoma, Washington, mall in March 2023. He was sentenced Friday.
Prosecutors had requested for 9 months of jail plus a 12 months of neighborhood custody, which has similarities to probation. The neighborhood custody was granted, and the neighborhood service should be finished in that 12 months.
Kemp admitted to firing at two males in a Toyota 4Runner after his mobile phone, sports activities memorabilia and different belongings had been stolen from his truck. He traced his cellphone to the Toyota 4Runner and he mentioned he was fired on by an occupant and shot on the car in self-defense.
“I ought to have used higher discretion,” Kemp, 55, mentioned in courtroom Friday in Pierce County, Wash.
He advised reporters outdoors the courtroom that he seems ahead to going into the neighborhood and advocating for gun security. He additionally mentioned he ought to have known as police as a substitute of taking the legislation into his personal palms.
“A easy name to cops in all probability may have dealt with this.”
Nobody was injured within the incident. Prosecutors mentioned they might hint 4 pictures fired by Kemp, with three of them hitting the 4Runner and the fourth hanging one other car.
He had no prior prison historical past.
Kemp was chosen by the SuperSonics within the first spherical of the 1989 NBA draft and spent the primary eight of his 14 NBA seasons in Seattle. The “Reign Man” averaged 14.6 factors, 8.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per sport throughout his profession. He made six consecutive All-Star appearances from 1993-98. — Subject Stage Media/Reuters
