A Toledo man who was one of three people shot outside a Whitmer High School football game about six months ago received a 30-month prison sentence Thursday for illegal weapons possession.

Maurice A. Winfree, Jr., 21, had pleaded guilty in February to two counts of having weapons while under disability lodged against him last year in separate indictments, along with a single count of operating a motor vehicle without a license.

Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Joseph McNamara sentenced Winfree to the 30-month term on one of the gun charges while giving him five years’ probation for the other and a 180-day suspended jail sentence for the motor-vehicle charge.

Additional charges of receiving stolen property and illegally carrying a concealed weapon were dropped as part of a plea agreement.

The deal included a requirement, however, that he pay $870.19 in restitution to Enterprise Rent-a-Car.

And Winfree was separately arraigned on a new charge of having weapons while under disability, lodged in a March 27 indictment.

His status as a felon forbidden to possess firearms dates back to a juvenile adjudication of attempted felonious assault in 2015.

Winfree was one of three people shot outside of the Whitmer Stadium fieldhouse by the masked occupants of a blue sports car during the fourth quarter of the Oct. 7 game between Whitmer and Central Catholic High School.

Several dozen shots were fired but nobody was seriously wounded. Police said afterward that one of the victims was believed to have been specifically targeted, but beyond identifying the two other victims as bystanders, authorities have not officially named Winfree as that target. No arrests have been announced in that case.

The football game’s last seven minutes were canceled.

First Published April 8, 2023, 11:07 p.m.