Overview
- Ware was sentenced on Oct. 14 to life in prison plus more than five decades for multiple June 2022 shootings, according to prosecutors.
- Investigators say Ware and co-defendant Ahmani Gordon opened fire with 19 rounds on an undercover detective in Laveen, seriously wounding her.
- Police arrested both men at a nearby home shortly after the ambush, and ballistics linked seized guns and shell casings to the crime.
- Ware was found guilty in two trials of charges including attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault, drive-by shooting and related firearm offenses.
- Gordon, charged only in the detective attack, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.