18-year-old sentenced to two years in prison as youthful offender after pleading to shooting from a vehicle
Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dante Kevin McKeever-Coleman, 18, has been sentenced to two years in state prison as a youthful offender after entering a plea of nolo contendere to shooting from a vehicle and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent.
McKeever-Coleman was arrested as a juvenile in December 2024 and charged as an adult in June 2025. He was originally charged with two counts of attempted homicide, but formal charges of shooting from a vehicle and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent were filed later in connection with a December 2, 2024 incident in which Gainesville Police Department officers responded to the 100 block of NW 10th Street after receiving “numerous” calls about shots fired in the area.
Officers reportedly found 27 shell casings between 100 and 200 NW 10th Street, and witnesses said two groups had been shooting at each other in the street. Bullets reportedly hit multiple vehicles (occupied and unoccupied) and an occupied residence, but there were no reports of injuries. The investigation determined that McKeever-Coleman shot at two other individuals from a vehicle after a brief interaction between McKeever-Coleman and the victims at a gas station.
McKeever-Coleman has a juvenile conviction from 2023 and is prohibited from possessing a gun until he is 24.
On January 13, McKeever-Coleman entered an open plea of nolo contendere to the two charges, with an agreement that the prosecutors would agree to a “youthful offender” sentence. Judge James Colaw sentenced him to two concurrent sentences of two years in state prison as a youthful offender in accordance with Florida Statute 958.04, followed by two years of community control (house arrest) and then by two years of probation.
Since he’s been sentenced I guess Prizzia and company are fine with his mugshot?
Im sure he’s just like his daddy!!!!!
Wow, and on a technicality!
If he’d known to shoot INTO A CAR, like in Minnesota, he’d be a free man today.
PS From Minnesota, a named witness said Goode was told to leave by Ice before being told to get out of car.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/renee-good-ice-agent-comply-legal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1A.L0UL.qkIDybK6My9f&smid=url-share
Ice does not have authority to give orders to citzens unless impeding an “operation”. There was no “operation” at that time and traffic enforcement is not in their purview.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/renee-good-ice-agent-comply-legal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1A.L0UL.qkIDybK6My9f&smid=url-share
New video and analysis timing it with others:
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010648638/ice-shooting-renee-good-minneapolis-videos-analysis.html?smid=url-share
One last thing ICE, ICE Baby.
It’s beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.
Again, a tragedy, but why didn’t she get out of the car when ordered?
It’ll all come down to whether the officer/agent was truly in fear for his life. (Someone else will make that determination).
Because – according to a named witness – she was told by another agent to leave and because it is a commonly observed fact that people who get out of cars with angry ICE agents pulling on the handle get the f beat out of them and then sent to detention centers – unnamed for relatives or friends – and held for anywhere from a day to a weeks without charges or any processsing.
I told you! This is a police state with operations run by untrained thugs wearing masks and no IDs, and no idea of what due process means.
For instance:
“A Maryland woman arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month and held for 25 days despite providing a birth certificate, immunization records and what her lawyers describe as overwhelming evidence that she is a U.S. citizen said the experience was shocking and she hopes the case against her will soon end…”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/01/16/maryland-woman-ice-detained-25-days/
Look up State versus Hecksle. This was a local Gainesvillle police shooting that created the case-law for this scenario. [2001]
There’s one fine specimen of a human being off the streets for the next two years. I’m “almost” certain that when he is released, he will follow the guidelines of his house arrest.
The odds of this guy deciding to take a different path in two years of jail are approximately zero. The prosecutors and judge did him no favors by letting him back on the streets at 20.
I hope he’ll be eligible to be an Ambassador when he gets out. Too bad former mayor Poe’s guaranteed income program is over… Mr Coleman will probably have a hard time getting his feet back under him