A Shreveport man convicted last month for domestic violence was sentenced in Caddo District Court Wednesday, March 12, 2025, to 29 years in prison.
Nakadrian Oshee Sanders, 24, who battered his live-in girlfriend and strangled her to unconsciousness on September 24, 2024, was sentenced by District Judge Donald E. Hathaway Jr. Sanders has two prior convictions for domestic violence, in Bossier Parish in 2020 and in Caddo in 2021.
For his conviction on domestic abuse battery strangulation, resulting in serious bodily injury, Sanders received a term of 25 years under Louisiana Revised Statute 14:35.3L(2) that went into effect in 2024. The law recognizes that strangulation is an exceptionally dangerous type of physical attack; it provides a penalty of five to 50 years if the offender strangles the victim to the point of unconsciousness, as happened in this case. Sanders pressed his victim against a wall in their apartment, placed both hands around her neck and strangled her with such force that he lifted her off her feet until she went unconscious.
Sanders also was sentenced to four years at hard labor for domestic abuse battery, with Judge Hathaway ordering the sentences to run consecutively, for a total of 29 years.
Sanders was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Britney A. Green and Ron Christopher Stamps of the DA’s Special Victims Unit. He was defended by Evan McMichaels and Katherine Ferguson.
The case was docket No. 404285.
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