Warren man gets six years in prison for gun incident involving patrolman


Staff report

WARREN

Randall Bryant, 46, of Homewood Avenue Southeast, was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for felonious assault, cocaine possession and two counts each of being a felon in possession of a firearm and assault in a confrontation with a police officer May 27, 2015.

Patrolman Adam Huffman shot Bryant one time in the arm, but the bullet traveled into his chest and hit a lung, police said. It happened after Bryant refused to put down his gun after coming through the front door of the house where he lived with his girlfriend on Harrison Street Northeast.

Huffman was responding alone to a domestic-violence call.

But when he got there, an ambulance worker told Huffman that Bryant was holding his girlfriend at gunpoint in the house. Huffman also spoke briefly with the girlfriend’s mother, who was in the back of the ambulance.

A dash-cam video provided audio of what happened as Hufffman stood near the front of the house as Bryant emerged through the front door.

Huffman could be heard saying, “Let me see your hands,” then yelling “Drop the gun! Drop the gun!” as the sound of gunfire is heard and then Huffman telling a dispatcher, “Shots fired,” and then shortly afterward, “Got a man with a shotgun in the house, came out the door at me.”

Trumbull County Prosecutor Dennis Watkins later released a statement clearing Huffman of wrongdoing, citing statements from witnesses that backed up Huffman’s account of the incident.

Bryant was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm because he has previous convictions for aggravated assault and aggravated drug trafficking in two Trumbull County cases. Ohio law prohibits most convicted felons from having weapons.

Because the shooting was of a citizen by a police officer, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation handled the investigation.

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