WICHITA, KAN. – 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 Wichita, to 14-years in prison, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office.
On August 1 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.
In May of 2023, after Henry bonded out of jail, 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. In September, Henry pled guilty to the crimes in both cases.
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.
Henry has three previous convictions for domestic battery and two for criminal threat, according to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections.