A 23-year-old Nigerian sprinter, Godson Oghenebrume, has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison in the United States after pleading guilty to possessing a fire@rm while in the country on an F-1 student visa.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Oghenebrume illegally possessed a Glock 43X 9mm pistol on February 7, 2025, while studying in the U.S. under a non-immigrant student visa.
Court records show he was at his apartment in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with another woman when his ex-girlfriend, who is also the mother of his infant child, arrived with the baby. An argument broke out outside, during which he fired the g¥n while the child was present.
