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The funeral procession for Champaign police Officer Chris Oberheim is held Wednesday.Oberheim, a Decatur native, was killed in a shootout last week.
URBANA — An Indianapolis woman has been sentenced to four years in prison after taking part in the straw purchase of a handgun that was used to kill Champaign police officer Chris Oberheim in 2021.
Oberheim, a 44-year-old Decatur native, was fatally shotwhen he and another officer responded to a report of a domestic disturbance. Fellow Officer Jeffrey Creel was also wounded in the incident.
Ashantae Corruthers, 30, appeared at a sentencing hearing Tuesday in federal court, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois said in a news release.
Corruthers was accused of engaging in a conspiracy to illegally purchase and transfer a firearm and conspiracy to engage in misleading conduct.
She pleaded guilty in June 2023 and admitted that she conspired with Regina Lewis and Darion Lafayette to buy the gun in 2020 at an Indianapolis gun store. Lafayette, Lewis' cousin, could not buy the gun himself because he was a convicted felon.
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Corruthers falsely certified on a form for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that she bought the gun for herself. She later reported to Indianapolis police in 2021 that the gun had been stolen.
Lafayette shot Oberheim and Creel on May 19, 2021, after they responded to the reported disturbance at an apartment complex in Champaign.
Lafayette was also fatally shot.
Lewis, of Normal, was sentenced in December 2023 to 8 1/2 years in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to buy and transfer a firearm and a conspiracy to engage in misleading conduct.
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