Grand Forks Man Sentenced to 10 Years in 2025 Shooting
De'Angelo Brent was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a 2025 shooting.
3 reports on this incident · first at Aug 24, 2026, 10:25 p.m. ET
This case is not concluded. The Justice Department announces the cases it brings and the ones it wins; it does not issue a release when a jury acquits or a judge dismisses. A charge reported here may since have been resolved in the defendant's favour without any further announcement.
We last searched for new coverage of this at Aug 24, 2026, 10:38 p.m. ET — checked 3h ago.
Earlier reports
Aug 24, 2026, 10:29 p.m. ET
Grand Forks Man Sentenced to 10 Years in 2025 Shooting
De'Angelo Brent has been sentenced to 10 years with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on an aggravated assault charge, according to Valley News Live. The sentence was handed down in connection with a 2025 shooting.
Brent also received a five-year term for reckless endangerment, to run concurrently, plus two years of supervised probation and 30 days on a criminal mischief count, the outlet reported. The government had alleged that Brent raised his arm, pointed a gun at Locke, and fired multiple rounds, striking him.
The charges included aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief, as reported by Valley News Live.
Aug 24, 2026, 10:25 p.m. ETFirst report
Grand Forks Man Sentenced to 10 Years in 2025 Shooting
De'Angelo Brent was sentenced on August 25, 2026, in connection with a 2025 shooting, according to Valley News Live. The court imposed a 10-year term with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on an aggravated assault charge, and a concurrent five-year term on a reckless endangerment charge, plus two years of supervised probation and 30 days on a criminal mischief count.
The government alleged that Brent raised his arm, pointed a gun at Locke, and fired multiple rounds, striking him. The charges included aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief. The sentencing follows a plea deal, and the attempted murder charge was dropped.
Was this report accurate and useful?
Sources
Revision history
- Version 125 Aug 2026, 02:36current
First published.
- Version 125 Aug 2026, 02:25current
First published.
- Version 125 Aug 2026, 02:29current
First published.
How we work
This site models an investigative reporter rather than a wire desk. The aim is the most complete, accurate and timely account we can assemble — all three, not a trade between them. Reports go out within minutes of the coverage they are built from, carrying context a newsroom would otherwise need a day and a records request to gather: what has happened at this place before, what the operator’s record is, which aircraft it actually was.
Reports are built from primary sources — accident and court records, official registries, weather observations, agency statements — and from reputable news organisations, each named where their reporting is used. Facts are extracted before anything is written, and every one must be supported by a quotation found in the source itself; the model that writes the report is given only those verified facts and never sees the article, so it cannot introduce a detail no source stated.
Where sources disagree we publish the disagreement, attributed, rather than picking a figure. Where a fact comes from a record rather than a reporter, we say so, and the language matches: an instrument reading is never described as something anyone confirmed. Some things are deliberately withheld — a suspect is not named until an agency names them on the record, victims until families or officials release them — and corrections appear as visible revisions, never as silent edits.
None of that makes a report true. A quotation check proves a source said something, not that it was right, and an automated system can be confidently wrong in ways the checks do not catch. If something here is wrong, the feedback above is how it gets found. The full methodology, including what we refuse to publish.