SEATTLE (AP) — A man described as one of Seattle’s most violent criminals has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for attempting to kill a grand jury witness.
Devaughn Dorsey has shot no fewer than eight people since 1990. He didn’t kill any, but did paralyze one victim.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik sentenced him Friday, noting that it is the longest sentence he has imposed as a federal judge. Dorsey was convicted in June in the shooting of a woman and her 10-year-old son just two days before she was to testify against him to a grand jury investigating a car theft ring. Both the woman and her son survived.
Besides witness tampering, Dorsey was sentenced for using a firearm in a violent crime and on multiple counts of trafficking in stolen cars.
