Detroit Repo Shooter Sentenced

Detroit, MI – January 3, 2026 – In a rare case of swift justice, the woman who shot at a 41-year-old repossession agent employed by Tolemite Recovery in June has been sentenced. Unsurprisingly, it appears as though the DA let her off easy.

The trial against repossession shooter Shaquanda Tankersley ended in September when she pleaded guilty to felonious assault when the District Attorney dismissed her assault with intent to murder and felony firearm charges. As if that wasn’t insult to injury enough, the sentence was almost worse.

The whole drama unfolded on June 15^th  at 2:58 p.m. when officers pulled up to a home on Nottingham on Detroit’s east side where the Tankersley was in the process of taking aim at the still unnamed Repo Man. The agent testified that he felt lucky to be alive after a bullet whizzed through his hair and the back of his truck.

“I noticed a woman coming down the street as I was strapping the vehicle. I noticed cops coming down the street as she was yelling ‘he stole my vehicle, get him!” he testified.

“The car owner came and tried to stop the repossession, said something to the effect of ‘you’re stealing my car,’ and fired multiple shots at the repo man and his truck,” Detroit Police Chief Bettison said. “Our officers fired shots at the woman, subsequently striking her multiple times.”

On the stand on Tuesday, the repossession agent testified that Tankersley yelled at the officers before firing 3-4 gunshots at him.

“Once she started shooting I was jumping in the truck and taking off. I don’t know if she went right, left, or keep coming at me,” he said. “I know she hit her vehicle and the back window of my truck.“

The agent felt the woman had one thing in mind.

“She was trying to kill me,” he said.

At the trial, Tankersley appeared in court with gauze on her back from the gunshot injuries sustained by the police and is charged with assault with intent to murder and felony firearm charges.

In September she pleaded guilty to felonious assault when the District Attorney dismissed her assault with intent to murder and felony firearm charges.

On Monday, February 2nd, Tankersley was sentenced to one to four years in prison, court officials said. One to four for attempted murder. Of course, she’ll probably be eligible for parole in six months if not sooner. Yet another pathetic sentencing for a repo related violent crime.

For Brian Tolstedt and the staff at Tolemite Recovery, this was the second shooting at an agent in two days! Fortunately, neither agent was physically harmed in either, but the weak and inconsistent application of justice in these cases is frustrating to say the least.

Source: Clickondetroit.com

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