16-year-old boy sentenced to 50 years in prison for shooting five-year-old girl

Noah Ney was sentenced as an adult for the 2022 shooting after the court was told he knows the difference between right and wrong but has ‘no amenability to treatment’ as reported by MailOnline.

The 4ft 9in gunman from Oklahoma was jailed on Monday, two months after he mounted a daring escape from a Tulsa juvenile detention center where he had assaulted staff, flooded his cell and smeared feces on the walls.

‘I have treatment records in a packet thicker than a dictionary showing treatment attempts that he rejected, by escaping or assaulting staff that were there to help him,’ said Assistant Tulsa County District Attorney Morgan Medders

Ney already had a criminal record stretching back to his middle school years when he shot the five-year-old girl in April last year in what the court heard was an initiation into the town’s Hoover Crips gang.

She was playing inside her home in North Rockford Avenue when he drove by in a stolen car and fired a gun at the house, hitting her in the neck and shoulder.

‘There were multiple people in the line of fire during the drive-by shooting,’ Medders told Tulsa District Court.

‘The five-year-old was transported to hospital by EMSA because of the severity of her injuries and a difference of an inch or two in the penetrating gunshot wounds to the child could have resulted in her death.’