OKLAHOMA CITY — A 52-year-old Oklahoma City man has been sentenced to more than 55 years in federal prison for attempted kidnapping, attempted carjacking, and illegal possession of ammunition in a 2022 attack that left a woman shot multiple times in a hospital parking garage.
Robert Lee Harrison Jr. was sentenced Friday to 660 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Bernard M. Jones II. The judge also ordered Harrison to pay $13,907.41 in restitution, announced U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester on Tuesday.
The sentence follows a retrial in July 2025, when a federal jury found Harrison guilty of attempted kidnapping. Jurors previously convicted him in January 2023 on charges including kidnapping, carjacking, and use and discharge of a firearm during a violent crime, and he received a life sentence later that year.
However, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned two of those convictions due to changes in the law and allowed a new trial on the attempted kidnapping charge.
At both trials, Harrison’s former girlfriend testified that he forced her into her car at gunpoint as she was leaving work at the Integris Baptist Medical Center parking garage. She said he held her inside the vehicle and repeatedly punched her before she escaped.
According to court records, Harrison chased her to the elevator lobby and shot her about eight times before fleeing the scene.
Harrison was arrested the next day following a short foot chase.
At sentencing, Judge Jones cited Harrison’s criminal history, the “violent and horrific” nature of the attack, and what he described as Harrison’s lack of remorse.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Oklahoma City Police Department, with assistance from the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys David Nichols Jr. and Jacquelyn Hutzell.
The prosecution was part of “Operation 922” and “Shots Fired,” local initiatives under the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program aimed at reducing gun violence.
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