A man who fired shots into his ex-girlfriend’s house and ran her car off the road has been sentenced to prison. District Judge David Kaufman sentenced Nicholas Henry, 30 of Wichita, to 168 months in prison.
On August 1st of 2022, Henry purposely ran his ex-girlfriend’s car off the road near Maple and Richmond in Wichita. The woman’s five-year-old and nine-year-old daughters were in the car. Both little girls were treated at the scene for minor injuries.
Henry was later charged with three counts of aggravated battery.
After Henry bonded out of jail and on May 7th of this year, he shot into his ex-girlfriend’s house multiple times. The woman’s younger daughter received wounds to her wrist and back from bullet fragments. The girl’s older sister and mother were also in the house when Henry fired the shots.
Henry pled guilty to the crimes in both cases on September 6th.
Tuesday afternoon, Judge Kaufman followed the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines and sentenced Henry to 32 months for running the woman’s car off the road. In the second case, Henry was sentenced to 136 months on charges of criminal discharge of a firearm, aggravated assault, criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and criminal damage to property. The Judge ran both sentences consecutively.