PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN ) — A man was sentenced to over two years in prison in connection to a 2022 shooting that involved a Salem police officer returning fire, though no one was injured.
On Monday, Vincent Nesbitt was sentenced to 28 months for the incident that occurred amid an attempted stolen vehicle police investigation on Nov. 12, 2022, the Marion County District Attorney’s Office announced.
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That night, a woman had reported to police that two men had attempted to steal her vehicle. She said one of the suspects had a gun. She kept her doors locked, was able to drive off and later notified an officer who had been parked in his police car.
Three days prior, a similar carjacking at gunpoint occurred, though the suspects remained at large at the time. Police then found a vehicle with a license plate matching the stolen car from Nov. 9, 2022, via traffic camera footage. The car drove through an intersection less than an hour before the early-evening attempted carjacking that occurred on Nov. 12.