CEDAR RAPIDS – A Waterloo man who shot at a crowd outside a Waterloo nightclub was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison.
O’Shea Taelly Wright (pictured at top), age 27, from Waterloo, received the prison term after a November 3, 2023, guilty plea to possession of ammunition by a felon.
Information disclosed during the plea and sentencing hearing revealed that Wright was involved in a fight outside a Waterloo nightclub on December 31, 2022. Multiple people were involved in the fight. During the fight, Wright walked to the SUV he had arrived at the nightclub in and retrieved a firearm from the front passenger seat. Wright then fired multiple shots toward a group of people fighting nearby. No one was shot or injured by Wright. At the time, Wright was a felon based on a drug conviction and was on probation for that felony conviction.
Wright was sentenced in Cedar Rapids by United States District Court Judge Leonard T. Strand. Wright was sentenced to 66 months’ imprisonment. He must also serve a 3-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley Corkery and investigated by the Waterloo Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Investigations.