Lady Gaga dog walker shot: Gunman gets 21-year prison sentence

A antheral who changeable and wounded Lady Gaga's canine walker during a canine theft has been sentenced to 21 years successful prison.

James Howard Jackson pleaded nary contention - California's equivalent to a blameworthy plea - to attempted murder.

Ryan Fischer was walking the singer's 3 French bulldogs successful Hollywood successful February 2021 erstwhile Jackson changeable him successful the chest, the tribunal heard.

He attended Monday's tribunal proceeding and said the shooting had changed his beingness forever, CBS News reported.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office called the onslaught "a cold-hearted convulsive act".

Several different charges Jackson faced were dismissed arsenic portion of a plea deal.

Jackson and 1 of 4 different accomplices took 2 of the dogs, Koji and Gustav, pursuing the shooting.

A 3rd bulldog, Miss Asia, ran distant and was aboriginal recovered by police.

At the time, constabulary said that they thought the dogs were targeted due to the fact that of their breed - and not due to the fact that of who their proprietor was.

The 2 stolen dogs were returned unharmed 2 days aboriginal aft Gaga offered a $500,000 (£359,000) reward.

One accomplice, Harold White, pleaded blameworthy connected Monday to breaking the instrumentality that prevents erstwhile convicts from possessing firearms. He is owed to beryllium sentenced adjacent year.

White's son, Jaylin Keyshawn White, and Lafayette Shon Whaley some pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to second-degree robbery and were sentenced to 4 and six years successful situation respectively.

The idiosyncratic who returned the dogs, Jennifer McBride, was aboriginal charged with being an accessory to attempted execution and her lawsuit remains pending, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Jackson's time successful tribunal was delayed aft he was wrongly released from situation successful April successful what the US Marshals Service described astatine the clip arsenic a "clerical error". He was re-arrested the aforesaid month.