SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane man will spend 16 months in prison after a jury convicted him of restraining his girlfriend in a car and firing a gun near her head during a domestic violence incident.
Jaquin E. Cox, 29, was sentenced Dec. 15 in Spokane Superior Court after a jury found him guilty in November of unlawful imprisonment with domestic violence, aiming or discharging firearms with domestic violence, tampering with a witness and violating a court order, according to court records.
The charges stem from a November 2024 incident when Cox and his girlfriend left a party together, court documents show. During an argument while Cox was driving, the victim tried to exit the car multiple times at stop lights, but Cox grabbed her around the neck to prevent her from leaving, according to trial testimony…