1/19/23

A Woodstock man will spend nine years in jail for shooting at law enforcement in the summer of 2020.

Online records showed that Sean Patrick Dempsey avoided a trial this week by pleading guilty to eight charges, including seven counts of malicious wounding of a law enforcement officer.

A Shenandoah County Circuit Court judge sentenced the 28-year-old Dempsey to 45 years in prison with 36 of those years suspended.

Those charges stem from an incident on August 20th, 2020, at a home on Back Road, west of Woodstock.

Authorities reported taking on fire after they responded to a report of a domestic disturbance. Dempsey was captured the next day in the Winchester area.