Devontae Christian Harris, 28, will serve 11 years in connection with a Nov. 23, 2022, incident in which he stalked, battered and shot in the head a woman he had dated. Harris, of Hammond, was sentenced to serve seven years in an Indiana Department of Correction facility and an additional four years in the Lake County Community Corrections Kimbrough Work Program in Crown Point, if he qualifies, court documents state. Harris, who received his sentencing on Thursday in the courtroom of Lake Superior Court Judge Samuel Cappas, stood calmly with his attorney, Nicholas Barnes, while agreeing to the terms. In his plea agreement, Harris pled guilty to Count II, aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony. At the time of sentencing, the state agreed to dismiss Count 1, attempted murder, a felony; Count II, stalking, a Level 4 felony; Count IV, stalking, a Level 5 felony; domestic battery by means of deadly weapon, Level 5 felony; domestic battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a Level 5 felony; Count VII; domestic battery in violation of a not contact order, a Level 6 felony. According to the probable cause affidavit, Harris was accused of stalking and battering a Hammond woman who had a protective order against him before he shot her 4-5 times in November 2022. Hammond Police were called at 1:36 p.m. Nov. 23, 2022, to the 6600 block of Alabama Avenue, where a woman lay shot on the ground, the affidavit states. The woman, with whom he had been previously dating, had a protection order filed against Harris in September, records show. Just two days before the shooting, he came over and left her with a black eye, charges state. In addition, the victim reported she was unable to use her hand following the Nov. 23 incident and she reported suffering from ringing in her ears and headaches due to being shot in the head by Harris. Another man told police he was staying with the woman to protect her and their 3-year-old child from Harris, charges state. Harris had beaten her in the past, was threatening her, and had a previous domestic battery case against her, the man said and court records show. The woman told police she went to a grocery store with her child. When they returned, she got a text from Harris asking where she was. She ignored it. Then, she saw Harris ride by in a gold Chevrolet Blazer, records show. She yelled for the other man, helping unload groceries, and their child to go inside. Within 15 minutes, two men in ski masks with guns were running toward her. She knew one was Harris, partly from his tattoos, documents state. Harris was scheduled to return to Lake County Superior Court on Feb. 12 on charges of three counts of intimidation, a Level 5 felony. Harris received those charges during a hearing held last July before Lake Superior Court Judge Gina Jones. Jones, during the hearing, rejected his plea deal for stalking and shooting a woman in the head and lashed out at the judge and the courtroom bailiff in a profanity-laced tirade in the courtroom. For his actions, Harris was charged with three counts of intimidation, a Level 5 felony, and the judge filed a motion to move his case to another courtroom. Post-Tribune archives contributed. Deborah Laverty is a freelance reporter for the Post-Tribune. ...read more read less