Michael Shavers granted controversial plea deal

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – A controversial plea deal is now a done deal.

Prosecutors had worked out an agreement with Michael Shavers.

He shot his ex-girlfriend, Ashley Harris, and another man while they were sitting in a truck in February of 2015. Harris was shot in the stomach.

Shavers testified in the Lookout Valley triple homicide trial last September.

In court on Friday, Judge Tom Greenholtz accepted the plea deal. He cited a report from the probation office that concluded Shavers was not likely to commit another offense.

Shavers plead guilty to two counts of attempted second degree murder. He was in jail for the past three years. Now Shavers will be put on house arrest, with GPS monitoring, for ten years.

Harris and her mother, Donna, have been upset about the plea deal. They weren’t pleased with what happened in court.

“I don’t feel like justice was served. I mean he planned this out. He plotted it out. He threatened to do it a month prior,” Donna Harris said.

She feels her daughter could be in danger.

“I mean this is my daughter’s life. You know even though it said low risk, it don’t matter, it is my daughter’s life. There shouldn’t be any risk if they are going to let him out,” Donna Harris said.

The message this sends, scares her.

“This is just telling everybody else in the world that they can go out and try to shoot somebody and put bullet holes in them and they will just get to go home with a bracelet and be monitored by a probation officer they are not going to do no hard jail time,” Donna Harris said.

Shavers was also ordered not to contact the two victims.