North Dakota
North Dakota man convicted of shooting 2 police officers
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A jury has convicted a North Dakota man of taking pictures two Wisconsin cops.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported 25-year-old Nathanael Benton was discovered responsible Thursday of first-degree tried murder, reckless endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm after a three-day trial.
Physique digicam footage reveals Benton taking pictures Delafield Officer Michael Henning and Hartland Officer Matthew Seeger on the Delafield Vacation Inn in November 2020. Each officers survived their wounds.
Benton testified through the trial that he had shot somebody in Fargo every week earlier, fled to Indiana and was on his approach again to North Dakota with a buddy and one other particular person when he stopped in Delafield. Officers responding to a hit-and-run within the space questioned his group as they had been getting into the resort.
As Henning approached Benton to look him Benton pulled out a handgun hid in his waistband and fired 10 rounds. Benton testified that he wasn’t making an attempt to harm the officers and was simply making an attempt to get away.
Benson’s lawyer, Jeffrey Jensen, argued that Benton fired rapidly and wildly, exhibiting that he by no means meant to kill the officers.
Benton is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 29. He faces as much as 78 1/2 years behind bars.