From the Courts - State District Court: Man resentenced on shooting charge

Tristan Alexander Ehry was resentenced to eight years after a state District Court judge found he violated conditions of his release in a sentence for shooting a man.

Ehry was sentenced in 2018 to eight years, all suspended, after he pleaded guilty in a plea agreement to assault with a weapon. 

The charge was an amended version. Ehry originally was charged with attempted deliberate homicide.

Court documents say Ehry was charged after he shot a man with a .22 caliber rifle May 27, 2017. 

Officers found from where he had fired the shot, an area he basically had dug out and made into a sniper’s nest.

The document said the bullet passed through the victim’s shoulder, inches from his face, neck and heart, and lodged in a building.

July 2, the Hill County Attorney’s Office filed a petition to revoke Ehry’s suspended release, saying he had been placed under house arrest in an intervention and ordered to obtain and wear a GPS device and alcohol monitoring device and attend a treatment program. He did not follow those orders and evaded law enforcement officers when they tried to contact him, the petition said.

Tuesday, District Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz ruled that the prosecution had proven Ehry violated conditions of his release and sentenced him to eight years with the state Department of Corrections, two years suspended, and credited him with 572 days served and 291 days street time.