Man sentenced for shooting at officer

Kim Smith

Thursday, April 4, 2002 | 9:43 a.m.

A Las Vegas man accused of shooting at a Henderson Police officer in October has been sentenced to four to 10 years in prison.

William R. Clark pleaded guilty to possession of a stolen vehicle and discharging a firearm out of a motor vehicle in connection with an Oct. 4 incident.

On Wednesday District Court Judge Kathy Hardcastle ordered Clark to serve four to 10 years on the stolen vehicle charge and two to five years on the firearms charged.

The sentences are to run together, and at the same time as a two- to five-year sentence Clark received in November on another firearms charge.

According to authorities, a Henderson Police officer was running a random license plate check on a Ford truck on Sunset Road near Mountain Vista Street when the truck made a U-turn, police said. Seven gunshots came from the truck and were fired toward the officer and his vehicle.

The officer was not injured, but four of the shots hit his patrol car, disabling it, police said. The truck and a handgun were later found in a nearby business park. The truck had been reported stolen.

Clark, 23, and Melissa Hack, 25, were arrested in Missouri a few days later.

Hack is scheduled to be sentenced April 10. She pleaded guilty to the gross misdemeanor charge of conspiracy to possess a stolen vehicle.

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