IONIA, Mich. — A western Michigan man who pleaded no contest to taking pictures an 84-year-old lady campaigning in opposition to abortion rights at his residence was sentenced to group service Tuesday.

Richard Harvey, 75, was ordered to finish 100 hours of group service. Judge Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger additionally gave him a suspended jail sentence of two months and a delayed sentence of 1 yr on probation.

Harvey pleaded no contest final month to felonious assault, careless discharge of a firearm inflicting damage and reckless discharge of a firearm.

Kreeger additionally should pay $347.19 in restitution and can't have any contact with the girl he shot, 84-year-old Joan Jacobson.

Jacobson was shot Sept. 20 at Harvey’s residence in Odessa Township, a group about 130 miles (210 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Jacobson informed investigators that she was asking a girl on the residence to vote in opposition to a proposed constitutional modification that will assure the fitting to abortion within the state when she was informed to go away. The modification later handed.

Harvey has stated the taking pictures was unintended, however Jacobson has maintained she believes it was intentional after she had argued with Harvey’s spouse, Sharon Harvey.

Jacobson was handled at a hospital for a shoulder wound.

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