IOWA CITY – This Iowa man shot up an apartment complex and cops caught him with two loaded pistols, and now he will have a decade in a federal prison to dwell on his choices.
O’Sean Dentale Horton, age 29 of Iowa City, was sentenced on June 26, 2025, to 120 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
According to public court documents and evidence presented at sentencing, Horton possessed two loaded pistols, a distribution quantity of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia in December 2020, within two backpacks found at Horton’s sister’s residence. In May 2023, Horton was witnessed on surveillance video shooting at another person multiple times in an apartment complex parking lot in Coralville and left behind .40 caliber shell casings. Horton was on probation in the Iowa District Court for Johnson County for failure to affix a drug tax stamp at the time he committed these offenses.
After completing his term of imprisonment, Horton will be required to serve a three-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal of the Southern District of Iowa made the announcement. This case was investigated by the Iowa City Police Department, University of Iowa Police Department, Johnson County Drug Task Force, Johnson County Special Emergency Response Team, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.