Brandon Scott Woodley, Shooting, Tennessee 2017

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A local man has been sentenced to a total of 138 months in prison following a shooting in a west Knoxville hotel parking lot in August 2015.

Brandon Scott Woodley, 35, of Knoxville, was sentenced by the Honorable Leon R. Jordan, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 120 months in prison for knowingly possessing ammunition after having been previously convicted of a felony.

Woodley was convicted in December 2016 after a jury trial in federal court. He has been in custody since his arrest in September 2015.

The shooting occurred during an argument between Woodley and a coworker. Witnesses testified that Woodley shot the victim during the altercation and attempted to shoot them again, but the gun jammed. The victim was hospitalized but has fully recovered.

At the time of the offense, Woodley was serving a three-year term of supervised release after his release from prison for a 2009 conviction of being a convicted felon in possession of a cache of firearms.

As a result of his more recent conviction and his illegal drug use and drug trafficking while on supervised release, Judge Jordan also revoked his supervised release and ordered him to serve an additional prison term of 18 months, to be run consecutively with the 120-month sentence for a total of 138 months.

The investigation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Knoxville Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew T. Morris represented the United States.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a comprehensive national strategy that creates local partnerships with law enforcement agencies to effectively enforce existing gun laws.

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