Former Seattle Sonics star Shawn Kemp has been sentenced to 12 months of community service, with a total of 240 hours in service for firing a gun outside the Tacoma Mall two years ago.
In 2023, Kemp was arrested for shooting at a car outside the mall. He tracked his stolen phone to the mall and fired three shots at the suspects.
No one was injured.
Kemp told officers at the scene that he was firing in self-defense.
Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to second-degree assault.
The prosecutors were seeking a nine-month jail sentence.
Shawn Kemp’s stake in pot business in jeopardy
In addition to community service, Kemp faces uncertainty about his partial ownership of Kemp’s Cannabis.
Brian Smith, communications director at the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board, said felony convictions make it difficult to renew a cannabis license.
“It’s up to the board to make those decisions,” Smith said. “Our guidelines say no. If you are convicted of a felony within 10 years, our guidelines say not to go forward with that license.”
Licenses to operate a cannabis business are required and must be renewed annually. Kemp has a 10% ownership in Kemp’s Cannabis, according to Smith.
“The board even has the option of only letting it go forward without him on the license. Or the other members [business co-owners] could ask him to leave. That’s a business decision on their end,” Smith said.
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Who hasnt fired a gun outside the Tacoma mall? smh
Guessing Kemp’s gonna be blackballed from HoF for a few more years now haha.
He did his first parking lot pop.
Bro got arrested for putting a 0/3 stinker
Instead of “Kemp’s Cannabis” he missed a golden opportunity to make a wrapper company called “Kemp’s Hemp”
I feel like if you shoot at somebody three times, you should be sentenced to more than community service. Just because he missed doesn’t mean there wasn’t intent. Lucky no innocent bystanders were hit
I saw the clip. It was so american
He gave me a signed picture of him when I bought some weed at his store when I went to Seattle.
I’ve been saying all along that this guy is like a hurricane
It is actually so easy not to be dumbass.
Damn one of my go to dispensaries!
community service isnt measured in months
you can do 240 hours in 10 days if its 24 hours a day
Why is Tacoma so much shittier than Seattle?
Its Tacoma chill theres a ton of other crimes going unpunished and its Shawn Kemp just sayin
I will preface this is saying, gun violence is bad in any circumstances. At the same time he was trying to get his stuff back and followed them around town. They fired first. He probably still should have got more than community service but it’s not a Jayson Williams situation where he got away with murder.
That article certainly paints the events differently than ESPN did.
[ESPN’s article](https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/46053131/ex-nbaer-shawn-kemp-gets-30-days-home-monitoring-23-shooting) claimed Kemp was tracking his stolen car, phone, and memorabilia and that the thiefs fired first on him (with which the prosecution agreed).
If anything it sounds like he got screwed getting community service for tracking down his own stolen stuff and firing back after getting shot at first.
That’s it?
I don’t know why, but I 100% thought Shawn Kemp passed away already. Must have been my feed giving me a bunch of “Shawn Kemp was a legend” videos that felt like tributes to a fallen comrade more than just giving props to someone who was still with us.
Got off easy
Good, we already have racist policing, good on this one case not going that far.