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Man shot by Warren police officer agrees to 6-year prison sentence
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
A city man who suffered at least one gunshot wound from a Warren police officer’s gun when he purportedly refused to put down his gun May 27, 2015, has pleaded guilty to felonious assault on a police officer and other offenses and agreed to a six-year prison sentence.
Randall Bryant, 46, of Homewood Avenue Southeast will be sentenced later, after the Trumbull County Adult Probation Department conducts a pre- sentence investigation.
Bryant pleaded guilty Thursday before Judge Ronald Rice of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court to the felonious assault, cocaine possession and two counts each of being a felon in possession of a firearm and assault.
His sentence will run at the same time as the one he will receive for pleading guilty in federal court to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. That charge also relates to May 27, according to federal court documents. He will be sentenced on that conviction in Cleveland federal court before Judge Christopher Boyko at 11 a.m. March 10.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation handled the investigation of the shooting by Patrolman Adam Huffman, who responded to a house on Harrison Street Northeast for a man holding a woman at gunpoint.
Huffman was alone at the scene and spoke with witnesses before Bryant came through the front door holding a gun. On a dash-cam video, 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.
The charges that justified Bryant’s convictions for being a felon in possession of a firearm are convictions for aggravated assault in a 2003 Trumbull County case and aggravated drug trafficking in a 1990 Trumbull County case.