MADISON, Wis. — A Madison man was sentenced this week to five years in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon after he shot at an ex-girlfriend’s car following an argument in 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin said.
A judge also sentenced Alexander Jefferson-Cooper, 29, to three years of supervised release.
Officials began investigating Jefferson-Cooper after an ex-girlfriend reported her vehicle had been shot on September 29, 2021, following an online argument with him, the justice department said in a news release. As part of the case, officers executed a search warrant on his home and found multiple guns, which he was not allowed to possess following multiple previous felony convictions.
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Ballistics testing found one of the guns to be involved in the car shooting, the release said.
Jefferson-Cooper was previously sentenced in November to six months in jail in a state case.
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