COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting a Colorado Springs police officer in the head.
The Gazette reports Karrar Noaman Al Khammasi was convicted in June of attempted murder and other charges and was sentenced Thursday for the 2018 shooting that left officer Cem Duzel with a serious brain injury.
Prosecutors say Al Khammasi shot Duzel while drunkenly firing at police after he was kicked out of an Uber car for being “handsy.” Duzel and other officers were responding to reports of shots fired in a neighborhood near the Olympic Training Center when they encountered Al Khammasi.
Duzel’s gunshot wound sent him to a Denver brain injury clinic for months. His healing process was highlighted in November 2019, when he walked across a stage at a police ceremony just over a year after the shooting to accept a Medal of Valor, the department’s highest honor.
Al Khammasi, who came to the United States as an Iraqi refugee, had been slated for deportation in 2016 until a change in immigration law meant that a prior felony trespassing conviction wasn’t grounds for removal.
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Welcome to the new and great America. Where violent felons are released for voting democrat, law abiding citizens are jailed, kids are taught to hate America, citizens stripped of their rights & being ordered to become human guinea pigs, politicians buying votes or stealing them, noncitizens given voter rights while citizens having their votes stolen. Ahhh what a wonderful place to live! Past time to defend our freedoms.
This is why for decades, i’ve said ANYONE who’s not an AMERICAN CITIZEN< who kills ANY AMERICAN, should be SWIFTLY EXECUTED, then his ashes air dropped BACK OVER their homeland!
As a non-citizen felon this guy has as many, if not more rights than a citizen. Makes me sick.
The puppet president Biden will probably pardon him when his Muslim handler, Barack Obama tells him to.
IT would be sick, but these days, i wouldn’t be surprised..
Shooting someone in the brain should be a capital offense even if the victim lives for years afterwards. The intent was murder and the victim is likely to have a shorter life, especially if the bullet remains in place.
45 years was NOT LONG ENOUGH !!!!
Kill a cop, hell KILL ANY AMERICAN while being here illegally (or under refugee status), there should only be ONE PUNISHMENT>
A swift, public execution. THEN YOUR ASHES should be sent back to your home country..
Too long to be feeding this garbage. “Refugees” who break American law are clearly not sincere and should be deported immediately. I say this as the child of real refugees who were so grateful to have been rescued from their war-torn country that they were MODEL citizens in their new home, more patriotic than many born in the US.