US-based Nigerian jailed, faces deportation over shooting during dispute

A 23-year-old Nigerian student in the United States, Godson Oghenebrume, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison and faces deportation after admitting to illegally possessing a firearm and firing multiple shots during a dispute with his ex-girlfriend, who had arrived at his apartment with their infant child.
The sentence was handed down by U.S. Chief Judge Shelly Dick after Oghenebrume was convicted of possessing a firearm as “an alien admitted to the United States under a non-immigrant visa,” according to a statement by U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana, Kurt Wall. Wall added that Oghenebrume “is also subject to removal or deportation from the United States upon comp...