A 16-year-old Waukesha boy, charged in February with attempted first-degree murder, was instead found guilty on Monday, Aug. 11, of recklessly endangering safety.
Zakaria Alhasasneh will spend three years in Lincoln Hills state prison in Irma, Wis., about 200 miles north of Waukesha, and four and a half years under extended supervision provided he maintains a full-time job or attends school.
Alhasasneh plead guilty to the lesser charge in late June after his attorney filed a document refuting a number of statements Alhasasneh had made to police recorded in a criminal complaint regarding an alleged shooting Alhasasneh was accused of committing with an accomplice named Alonso Corral.
According to the criminal complaint, Corral fired two shots into a vehicle on Feb. 5 in an attempt to kill a man named John Brautigam, a friend of Corral.
Corral had allegedly previously warned Brautigam about a potential confrontation.
Two children, ages 5 and 8, were also in the car at the time of the shooting, though no one was seriously injured.