MILWAUKEE, Wis. — A Wisconsin man convicted of shooting a group of children who threw snowballs at his car in 2020 received a 16-year prison sentence Friday.
WITI-TV reports that prosecutors had sought a 25-year prison sentence after jurors found William Carson guilty of two counts of first-degree reckless injury and five counts of first-degree reckless endangerment of safety in November .
According to court records, seven children were throwing snowballs at passing cars on Milwaukee’s north side in January 2020. A driver later identified as Carson turned around, got out, and fired a gun at the group.
Prosecutors have said two of the boys were wounded after being shot in the thigh and arm. A third child’s jacket was grazed by a bullet.
Judge Michael Hanrahan also included 10 years of extended supervision in Carson’s sentence.
“There is this other side of you that is impulsive, reckless, violent, I think self-centered,” Hanrahan said during a sentencing hearing Friday in Milwaukee.