Judge Braig sentences drive-by shooter to over 14 years

Judge Kevin P. Braig of the Logan County Court of Common Pleas General Division today sentenced Owen Wyne to over 14 years in prison on his convictions on two drive-by shooting specifications, two counts of improperly discharging a firearm into a habitation or school safety zone, felonies of the second degree, and one count of attempted trespass, a felony of the fourth degree.
 
The sentence was jointly recommended to the Court by Logan County Prosecutor Eric Steward and Wyne's defense counsel, Madison Mackay, of Columbus, Ohio.
 
The offenses occurred on August 14, 2023. On that date, Wyne traveled by car with others to the homes of persons that he believed had been unsympathetic to the death of one of his friends. Wyne discharged a Black Hi-Point CF380 firearm, and the bullets entered two homes, one in Bellefontaine and one in Washington Township in the Indian Lake area. No physical injuries to any occupants of the homes resulted from the shootings.
 
The Family Division of the Logan County Court of Common Pleas bound him over to the General Division on October 15, 2024. In doing so, Judge Kim Kellogg-Martin found that Wyne "glamorize[d] a criminal lifestyle."
 
At the sentencing hearing, Wyne admitted that his actions were wrong. "I thought it made you cool, but it doesn't. It makes you a coward," Wyne said.