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Columbus, Ohio: Tamari Stroughter Sentenced to Up to 40 Years for Firing a Rifle at Police

A Franklin County judge sentenced the 19-year-old on Monday to 36 to 40 years in prison. Stroughter was 17 when he fired a rifle at Columbus officers twice on Jan. 9, 2025, striking a cruiser at least twice. No one was hit.

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Columbus, Ohio: Tamari Stroughter Sentenced to Up to 40 Years for Firing a Rifle at Police

Key points

  • Tamari Stroughter, 19, was sentenced on Monday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to 36 to 40 years in prison for firing a rifle at Columbus police officers when he was 17.
  • Just before 11 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2025, Columbus police received a 911 call from a young woman in the 1100 block of Lockbourne Road who said her boyfriend, Stroughter, had a firearm and had…
  • When officers arrived at the house five minutes later, they found Stroughter armed with a rifle.

Tamari Stroughter, 19, was sentenced on Monday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to 36 to 40 years in prison for firing a rifle at Columbus police officers when he was 17. Judge Carl Aveni imposed the sentence. Stroughter pleaded guilty on Sept. 21, 2026, to felonious assault on a police officer and robbery in connection with the Jan. 9, 2025, incident, the Columbus Dispatch reported. He was tried as an adult.

The January 2025 shooting

Just before 11 a.m. on Jan. 9, 2025, Columbus police received a 911 call from a young woman in the 1100 block of Lockbourne Road who said her boyfriend, Stroughter, had a firearm and had threatened to shoot her, according to the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's Office. The woman had fled the area, but Stroughter remained at her mother's home.

When officers arrived at the house five minutes later, they found Stroughter armed with a rifle. He fired multiple times at the officers before running away, prosecutors said. Several officers joined the chase. At an alley west of Lockbourne Road and Kossuth Street, two officers encountered Stroughter, and he began firing his rifle again, striking their cruiser at least twice. Officers returned fire as he kept running. He tossed his rifle onto a nearby roof before he was taken into custody. No one was hit or injured by the gunfire.

Twenty counts, then a plea

A Franklin County grand jury indicted Stroughter on May 7, 2025, on 20 felony counts stemming from three separate incidents, including four counts of felonious assault from the January shooting, two counts of aggravated robbery from separate incidents, and one count of kidnapping. He was first charged as a juvenile. In April 2025, his case was transferred to adult court, where he was ordered held on $2.1 million bond. Prosecutors noted that Stroughter had been convicted as a minor in 2020 for robbery, which made it illegal for him to possess a firearm.

WCMH reported that Stroughter pleaded guilty and would spend up to 40 years in prison. The sentence handed down on Monday, 36 to 40 years, closes the case against the last of the gunfire that sent officers diving for cover on Lockbourne Road nearly two years ago. No officer was wounded in the shooting, a fact the court record returns to at every stage of the case.

Timeline

  1. Jan 9, 2025A 911 call from the 1100 block of Lockbourne Road brings Columbus officers to a home where Stroughter, 17, is armed with a rifle. He fires at officers at the house and again in an alley near Kossuth Street, striking a cruiser at least twice, then tosses the rifle onto a roof before his arrest. No one is injured.
  2. May 7, 2025A Franklin County grand jury indicts Stroughter on 20 felony counts from three separate incidents, including four counts of felonious assault from the January shooting.
  3. Sep 21, 2026Stroughter pleads guilty to felonious assault on a police officer and robbery.
  4. Oct 26, 2026Judge Carl Aveni sentences Stroughter to 36 to 40 years in prison in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

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