OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been convicted of two weapons charges connected to the death of an Omaha 5-year-old struck by a rifle bullet that penetrated a wall of her home.

Prosecutors made a deal with Jaylen Montgomery, who pleaded no contest on Monday to use of a firearm and discharging a firearm at an occupied building. Montgomery faces up to 54 years in prison when he’s sentenced on April 3.

Montgomery was one of four men charged in the slaying of Payton Benson. Authorities say the four were riding in a stolen vehicle on Jan. 15 last year when they spotted someone they thought was a rival gang member. They opened fire, and one of the bullets went through a wall of Payton’s home, through her and out another wall.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Douglas County District judge has sentenced Erica Jenkins to life in prison for the 2013 shooting death of a man.

Judge Peter Bataillon also sentenced Jenkins to 80 to 100 years for weapons counts for the Aug. 11, 2013, killing of Curtis Bradford.

Jenkins is the sister of Nikko Jenkins, who last year was convicted in the killing of Bradford, as well as the 2013 shooting deaths of Andrea Kruger and two others in separate attacks.

Erica Jenkins still faces a second murder trial in the slaying of Kruger.

Authorities say the siblings shot Bradford after luring him out on the pretense of committing a robbery.

Erica Jenkins, who’s already serving time for robbery, was not in the courtroom for Tuesday’s sentencing.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 22-year-old Wahoo man won’t be prosecuted for fatally shooting another man in north-central Omaha.

Daniel Lorenz had been arrested after Thursday’s shooting of 29-year-old Jameson Toler. But on Monday, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said, “It looks like the evidence shows the shooting was justified.”

Lorenz apparently fired in self-defense after Toler broke Lorenz’s vehicle windshield with his bare hands. Kleine says Lorenz had gone to the scene to help Toler’s wife during a domestic dispute.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Prosecutors have cleared a Council Bluffs officer who opened fire at a man who police say tried to run down the officer and another.

Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber said Monday that Officer Jarrod Poore used justified force on Dec. 23.

The officers had approached a parked Corvette that had been reported as stolen. They say the driver accelerated toward them and struck an unmarked police vehicle, but neither officer was injured. A chase ensued across the Missouri River into Omaha, Nebraska, and 33-year-old Jesse Wilkinson soon was arrested. He was treated for gunshot wounds.

Wilber says Wilkinson faces several charges. Online court records don’t list the name of his attorney.

BROWNVILLE, Neb. (AP) — The utility that owns Cooper nuclear power plant in southeast Nebraska has signed a long-term deal to buy fuel for the plant through 2034.

The Nebraska Public Power District recently approved the contract with Global Nuclear Fuel.

The contract covers nine planned reloadings between now and 2034. It could be worth more than $100 million for Global Nuclear.

Global Nuclear or one of its predecessors has provided all the fuel for Cooper over the life of the plant near Brownville, Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri River.

Global Nuclear is a joint venture of GE, Hitachi and Toshiba that has operated since 2000. Before that its predecessor, GE Nuclear, was a subsidiary of GE.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been hospitalized after someone shot him near an Omaha park.

Omaha police say the victim, whose identity wasn’t released, was shot just before 6 p.m. Monday next to Norwick Park.

Lt. Matthew Lippold says the man is estimated to be in his early to mid-40s and was taken to the hospital, where he’s in critical condition.

Lippold tells the Omaha World-Herald the man was alone in the park when he was shot. Lippold couldn’t say how many times the man was shot or where he was shot. No arrests have been made yet.

Meanwhile, officials identified 20-year-old Terence Butler as the man who was critically injured following a drive-by shooting early Monday morning outside an Omaha home.