UPDATE 3:13PM: The incident, initially reported to dispatch as a “carjacking” involved two people who recently met and decided to go to Reno together, said Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Bernadette Smith. They got into an argument at the top of Spooner on Highway 50.
A parolee who shot a Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputy in December was sentenced to a maximum of 61 years in prison Monday.
Nicholas Berreman, 23, of California shot DCSO Sgt. John Lenz during a traffic stop about 15 miles south of Carson City.
In late February, Berreman pleaded guilty to attempted murder, to being a prohibited person in possession of a gun and battery with a deadly weapon causing substantial bodily harm.
Lenz provided a victim impact statement in court Monday and detailed some of his injuries: a bullet entering his left cheek, breaking off a molar, breaking bone fragments from his jaw and lodging into his C2 vertebrae, temporarily causing Lentz to lose feeling in his hand. Lenz s jaw was wired shut for six weeks after the shooting. He added that he had surgery a couple weeks ago to remove additional bone fragments but many more are still lodged in his body.