A Selma resident was sentenced to 10 years in prison on firearms charge.

According to United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama, Jeffrey Bernard Harris, 40, was sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months after pleading guilty to one count charging a violation of a Prohibited Person in Possession of a firearm.

Court records show on Aug. 9, 2017 the Selma Police Department responded to Wrenwood Trailer Park near lot #20 in reference to a fight call with one subject armed.  The caller reported that Harris was beating a man with his fist and with a firearm. The assault victim was later a passenger in a vehicle that Harris fired into several times while the vehicle was leaving the trailer park.

When officers arrived at the trailer park, Harris stood near the entrance.  Law enforcement interviewed several witnesses who recounted the beating Harris had inflicted, as well as the multiple rounds he fired.  One round struck the victim in the jaw, exiting through his nose.

Other rounds fired by Harris struck the front windshield and rear fender of the vehicle the victim was in.  A tenant of the trailer park informed officers that she found a bullet lodged in the wall behind her refrigerator.   The firearm Harris used was a Taurus PT 24/7 Pro .45 caliber semi-automatic handgun.

Harris had other previous charges. He was convicted of two counts of Robbery, First Degree and, one count of Receiving Stolen Property, First Degree.

The SPD and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms both investigated this case.