Judge calls drive-by shooting ‘beyond absurd’ at sentencing

EASTPOINTE — At the sentencing for one of three people involved in a 2024 drive-by shooting, the judge called the incident “beyond absurd.”

Tyler Fistler, 22 — one of the three people who were charged in relation to a drive-by shooting that took place in June 2024 in Eastpointe — was sentenced Oct. 2 in the 16th Circuit Court in Mount Clemens. The judge sentenced Fistler to a mandatory two years in prison for felony firearm and then a minimum of 38 months to a maximum of 10 years for a count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. He must serve the two years for felony firearm first, and then the sentence for assault will begin. All other charges to which he pleaded no contest have sentences that run concurrently to those two charges.

At about 1:10 a.m. June 25, 2024, Eastpointe police were called to a home in the 16000 block of Forest Avenue after receiving reports of an “assault with intent to murder.”…

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