A fugitive who opened fire on federal officers from inside a Springfield, Ohio hotel room — while three young children and two other adults were in the room with him — was sentenced on Thursday, October 29, to 300 months, or 25 years, in federal prison for the attempted murder of federal officers.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of Ohio
Andre Jordan II, 35, of Reynoldsburg, in Franklin County, received the sentence from U.S. District Judge Michael J. Newman in Dayton, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced. Jordan had pleaded guilty in April 2026, and independent coverage of Thursday's sentencing confirms the 300-month term was imposed on October 29.
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How the standoff unfolded at the Quality Inn
According to court documents cited by the Justice Department, in early August 2025 the Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team — SOFAST, a federal task force — took over the hunt for Jordan and tracked him to a room at the Quality Inn in Springfield, in Clark County. Officers set up around the room and announced their presence. Jordan looked out of the window, and after further announcements he fired a shot through the window toward the hotel pool area, in the direction of officers and federal agents, who retreated to take cover.
Jordan then fired a round through the middle of the hotel room door into the hallway, where federal agents had been standing only moments before, prosecutors said. At the moment he began shooting, three young children and two other adults were inside the room with him. Hotel surveillance video, cited in court documents, shows the adults and children fleeing the room before Jordan fired at least eight more rounds through the connecting doors into the adjoining room, angled toward where officers had previously been positioned in the hallway. In total, the Justice Department says, he discharged his firearm at least 11 times.
The federal releases describe officers retreating to cover and a Springfield Police SWAT response. The Justice Department's account does not report any officer or hotel guest being struck, and Jordan eventually surrendered without further incident after hours of negotiation.
A fugitive wanted over a Columbus-area killing
Jordan was not simply a man avoiding arrest on a minor charge. When the task force found him, he was a fugitive with an active Franklin County arrest warrant for aggravated murder. U.S. Attorney Dominick S. Gerace II said the underlying murder had taken place outside a Columbus bar earlier that same month, in August 2025, and a warrant was issued on August 8, 2025. After the hotel standoff, Jordan was first taken to the Clark County jail on the local case and faced federal charges that included assault on a federal officer with a deadly weapon, attempted murder of a federal agent, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
"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," Gerace said in the Justice Department statement. "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."
From the Springfield SWAT callout to a guilty plea
On the day of the standoff, August 14, 2025, the Springfield Police Division SWAT Team responded to the hotel and hostage negotiators established communication with Jordan. After several hours of negotiation, he surrendered and was taken into custody. He was charged federally in August 2025 and pleaded guilty in April 2026 — a plea agreement that, the Justice Department said at the time, included a sentencing recommendation of 25 years in prison, the same term Judge Newman imposed on Thursday.
The sentence was announced 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 prosecuted the case.
What happens next
Jordan now begins a 25-year federal prison term for the attempted murder of federal officers. Thursday's federal announcement does not report any outcome in the separate Franklin County aggravated-murder case that made him a fugitive in the first place, and Awaaz Punjab is not treating that state case as resolved. Federal prison sentences in the United States carry no parole, so a 300-month term is served subject only to the limited good-time credits available under federal law.