18-year-old sentenced to two years in prison as youthful offender after pleading to shooting from a vehicle

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dante Kevin McKeever-Coleman, 18, has been sentenced to two years in state prison as a youthful offender after entering a plea of nolo contendere to shooting from a vehicle and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent.

McKeever-Coleman was arrested as a juvenile in December 2024 and charged as an adult in June 2025. He was originally charged with two counts of attempted homicide, but formal charges of shooting from a vehicle and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent were filed later in connection with a December 2, 2024 incident in which Gainesville Police Department officers responded to the 100 block of NW 10th Street after receiving “numerous” calls about shots fired in the area…

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