A former Miami-Dade Police officer avoided prison time as he was sentenced to 10 years of probation Thursday for an off-duty road rage shooting in 2014.
Jonathan Lang will also perform 500 hours of community service and must attend mental health and substance abuse counseling.
"It's now my badge I wear, a badge of shame," a tearful Lang said during Thursday's sentencing hearing.
Lang pleaded guilty in October to aggravated assault, discharging a weapon from a vehicle and tampering with evidence in the July 2014 incident.
Prosecutors had waived the minimum mandatory sentence of 20 years, hoping the judge would sentence Lang to at least five years in prison.
"You certainly heard what we thought should happen based on what did happen that day based on the circumstances and this is what the judge thought should be the sentence," prosecutor Isis Perez said.
Lang was off-duty and a passenger in a car on the Florida's Turnpike when authorities say he fired a weapon into a vehicle driven by a Miami-Dade Corrections worker.
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The corrections officer, Georgina Illa, wasn't hit by the bullet, which ended up lodged in the back seat of her car. Authorities said Lang's police-issued weapon went missing after the incident and was never found.
Lang was later relieved of duty.
"Illa Georgina, I'm truly sorry for what I did to you that night, you did not deserve it, I did not know you and I had nothing against you," Lang said at the sentencing.
