KKK leader sentenced to four years in prison for firing gun during Aug. 12 rally

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Preston fired a gun at the August 12, 2017 right wing rally in Charlottesville.

Edit to add: 8 year sentence with half suspended. Charge was discharging a firearm within 1000 feet of a school. Headed straight to jail this afternoon.

I'll update with a link to news story when one is available.

ETA:

From the Daily Progress

KKK leader sentenced to four years in prison for firing gun during Aug. 12 rally

Richard Preston, a self-identified Ku Klux Klan leader from Maryland, will serve four years in prison for firing a gun during the Unite the Right rally.

On Tuesday, Preston, 53, was sentenced to eight years in prison with four years suspended for discharging a firearm within 1,000 feet of The Park School. After he pleaded no contest in May, he faced a possible sentence of two to 10 years behind bars.

Preston had seen counter-protester Corey Long light an aerosol spray can as the rallying white supremacists exited what is now Market Street Park. Preston brandished a pistol at Long before lowering it again. Suddenly, he pulled the firearm up and aimed it in Long’s direction. He fired the gun and, prosecutors said, the projectile hit the dirt near Long’s feet but did not injure him.

On Monday, Long appealed his guilty verdict on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge related to the use of the improvised flamethrower.

https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/courts/kkk-leader-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-firing/article_65d0550e-a581-11e8-b49d-1ff04e916407.html

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