Speaking during the hearing, Assistant Tulsa County District Attorney Morgan Medders said: “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.”
Prior to his conviction, Ney already had a criminal record before the shooting in April last year.
Tulsa District Court was told the incident was part of a supposed initiation to earn the respect of the town’s Hoover Crips gang.
The victim had been playing inside her home on North Rockford Avenue before Ney drove past in a stolen car and fired a gun at the house.
A bullet hit the child in the neck and her shoulder.
Medders said: “There were multiple people in the line of fire during the drive-by shooting.
“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.”
While he awaited his sentence, Ney attempted to go on the run, scaling the Tulsa County Juvenile Justice Center alongside another inmate.
Sergeant Scott Streeter of the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office Warrants Unit said of his capture: “We came around the corner between us and Tulsa Police Department, got him surrounded, and were able to take him in.
“I think he thought about running, he turned around but everyone was all sides of him so he laid down on the ground and gave up.”
After his sentence was given, the judge, Tim Ostin, said it would be reviewed in 2028 if he could show remorse and reform.
Ostin added: “Play big boy games. Get big boy prizes.”
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