Steve Jefferson/Eyewitness News CrimeBeat
Indianapolis, April 17, 2003 - Indianapolis police are on the search for a violent felon mistakenly released from jail. 42-year-old Currie O'Bryant was convicted on five counts of attempted murder after he shot five people at a party on Indy's Northwest side last May.
A judge gave O'Bryant 115 years in prison, but a court clerk mistakenly marked sentencing documents as '115 days.'
O'Bryant got out of the Marion County jail April 7. Officials discovered their error when a paralegal working with a defense attorney on O'Bryant's appeal asked where O'Bryant was.
John Janney was one of O'Bryant's victims. " He shot at me. I didn't know at the time he hit me in the shoulder," Janney said Thursday. " I ducked in the bathroom and heard a couple of more pops."
Janney went on about the ordeal, " I waited for him to walked back there, I rushed him and grabbed the gun and it went off. It went off through my ear and into my skull."
Marion County Sheriff's deputies and members of the U.S. Marshals Service are searching for O'Bryant.
The clerk who made the error has been fired.
