ALLEGHENY COUNTY Man sentenced for shooting at 2 police officers

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A Pittsburgh man was sentenced to 66 to 132 years in prison for shooting at two police officers who were trying to arrest him during an undercover drug sting last summer.
Allegheny County Judge Lawrence O'Toole called 19-year-old Courtney Cox on Thursday "an obvious menace to society," citing his criminal record, which goes back five years.
A jury deliberated in April for about 10 hours over two days before convicting Cox of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the June 23 shooting that wounded Forest Hills police Officer Edward Limbacher.
Prosecutors said Limbacher and another officer were part of a state Attorney General's Office drug task force and tried to arrest Cox on June 23. As the officers got out of a van, prosecutors said, Cox drew a hidden pistol and began shooting, and one of the shots pierced Limbacher's bulletproof vest.
Defense attorney Jimmy Sheets argued that Cox didn't know that the men were police officers and fired in self-defense.