A federal judge in Dayton has sentenced a Reynoldsburg man to 300 months — 25 years — in prison for firing at least 11 shots at federal officers from inside a Springfield hotel room in August 2025, while he was already a fugitive wanted for murder, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced. Andre Jordan II, 35, was sentenced on Thursday, October 29, by U.S. District Judge Michael J. Newman for attempted murder of federal officers.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

At the time of the hotel shooting, Jordan had an active arrest warrant for aggravated murder out of Franklin County, prosecutors said. The murder charge stemmed from a killing outside a Columbus bar earlier in August 2025. On August 8, 2025, a warrant was issued for Jordan for murder, and the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team — SOFAST, a federal task force — adopted the fugitive investigation, which led officials to a Quality Inn in Springfield.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

How the hotel standoff unfolded

SOFAST tracked Jordan to a room at the hotel and set up to apprehend him. Officers announced their presence, and Jordan looked out the window of the room. After further announcements, prosecutors say, Jordan fired a shot through the window toward the pool area, near officers and federal agents who then retreated to take cover. He then fired a round through the middle of the hotel door into the hallway where federal agents had been standing just moments earlier.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

At the time Jordan discharged his firearm, three young children and two other adults were in the hotel room with him, prosecutors said. Hotel surveillance video shows the other adults and children fleeing the room before Jordan fired at least eight additional rounds through the connecting doors to the adjacent hotel room, at an angle and direction where law enforcement officers had previously been positioned in the hallway. No officer was reported struck in the Justice Department account, and no child was named — the account does not identify the children or the other adults in the room.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

The Springfield Police Division SWAT team responded, and hostage negotiators established communication with Jordan. After several hours of negotiation, Jordan surrendered without further incident and was taken into custody, prosecutors said. He was charged federally in August 2025 and pleaded guilty in April 2026.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

The guilty plea — and the sentence prosecutors sought

Jordan's April 2026 plea agreement included a sentencing recommendation of 25 years in prison, according to the Justice Department's plea release. That is exactly the term Judge Newman imposed on October 29: 300 months for attempted murder of federal officers. The sentence was announced jointly by U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II; Jason Cromartie, special agent in charge of the FBI's Cincinnati Division; U.S. Marshal Michael D. Black; Springfield Police Chief Allison Elliott; and Columbus Police Chief Elaine Bryant. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Elizabeth McCormick and Rob Painter represented the United States.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (guilty-plea release, April 2026)

What prosecutors said about the danger

“When he opened fire, Jordan showed a complete lack of regard for the lives of federal law enforcement officers and the occupants of the hotel — including those in his very own room,” U.S. Attorney Gerace said. “Jordan's actions, coupled with the fact that he was a fugitive who had been charged in a murder that took place outside of a Columbus bar earlier that month, make clear that he poses a significant threat to public safety and should remain in custody for a significant period of time.”

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

Background: who SOFAST is, and why a hotel room became a crime scene

SOFAST — the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team — is a federal task force that takes on fugitive investigations, drawing on the U.S. Marshals Service, the FBI and local police. In this case it worked with Springfield and Columbus police, and the Springfield SWAT team and hostage negotiators handled the hours-long standoff once Jordan began firing. That mix of agencies is why the sentencing announcement carries five names: the U.S. Attorney, the FBI's Cincinnati chief, the U.S. Marshal, and the Springfield and Columbus police chiefs.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

Springfield sits on the Interstate 70 corridor between Columbus and Dayton, a route Ohio truckers and travelling families use daily, and the Quality Inn standoff shut a slice of ordinary life — a hotel, its pool area and its hallways — into a tactical scene for hours. For hotel guests and staff, the detail that matters most is in the Justice Department's own account: the adults and children who had been in the room with Jordan got out before the heaviest volley, through connecting doors, while officers who had been in the hallway had already taken cover.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026

What happens next

Jordan, 35, now begins a 25-year federal prison term, subject to the usual federal rules on custody and any appeal or post-conviction motion, none of which is announced in the sentencing release. The federal case is closed at sentencing unless an appeal follows. The separate Franklin County murder matter, which put Jordan on the run in August 2025, is a different case in a different court, and its next steps are not described in the federal sentencing announcement — readers should not read the 25-year federal term as a sentence for that killing.

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio (U.S. Department of Justice), Oct. 29, 2026