MIAMI \u2014 Wilkhari Jones was a Miami Edison Senior High School football player with a full Florida Memorial University scholarship when police officers arrested him about six years ago, court records show. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Laura Gonzalez-Marques sentenced Jones, 25, to 13 years in state prison for his role in the shooting of Officer Erica Socarras on April 24, 2020, in Miami. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou are a very young man, Sir. And, I hope that you take the time in prison to reflect on the things that you have done, and come out of it differently, because you endangered an officer,\u201d Gonzalez-Marques told Jones. <\/p>\n
Gonzalez-Marques also sentenced Jones to a three-year probation and ordered him to stay away from Socarras. <\/p>\n
Socarras, a tactical robbery unit detective in an unmarked Dodge Charger, wasn\u2019t injured during the shooting in Brownsville. A round struck the Taser she had on her gun belt, according to police. <\/p>\n
Jones pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n
Gonzalez-Marques had sentenced Antranard Womble, his co-defendant, to 15 years in prison for firing at Socarras during a traffic stop at the corner of Northwest 22nd Avenue and 54th Street.<\/p>\n
Jones, who has been in jail without bond since Aug. 20, 2020, has two pending cases on charges of battery by a detainee upon a visitor or another detainee, according to court and inmate records. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Local 10 News Photojournalist Tim McFarland contributed to this report. <\/p>\n