23yearold felon sentenced to 38 years for Anderson shooting spree
Mar 25, 2026
ANDERSON, Ind. (WISH) — A 23-year-old felon will return to prison after he was sentenced in connection to a shooting spree that injured a youth, the Madison County chief deputy prosecutor said in a news release issued Wednesday.
Judge David Happe on Tuesday sentenced Tremmeric Love, of Ande
rson, to 38 years in prison during a hearing in Madison Circuit Court 4.
Love had pleaded guilty in February to 10 felonies — including aggravated battery, criminal recklessness, and unlawful firearm possession — in connection to January 2025 shooting spree, which happened a day after he was released from prison for a prior violent offense.
Love had been released from the Miami Correctional Facility near Bunker Hill on parole at 11 a.m. Jan. 13, 2025. Online prison records show he’d been prosecuted in November 2023 on low-level felony charges of battery and criminal recklessness in Madison County.
Hours later, investigators learned, he messaged another person to buy a handgun. By the following evening, he began a series of three separate shooting incidents across Anderson.
The first shooting happened about 8:15 p.m. Jan. 14, 2025, on 38th Street. Love fired at least eight rounds from a handgun at a passing vehicle occupied by two youth who were unknown to him. One of them, a boy, was struck in the abdomen and taken to a hospital, and he made a full recovery.
About an hour later, surveillance footage from businesses near the intersection of Nichol and Madison avenues captured Love slowing his vehicle and firing four to five rounds at a person walking in a field. The pedestrian never reported the shooting and remains unidentified.
Ten minutes later, Love returned to the same intersection and fired eight to nine rounds at a vehicle parked at a gas pump, causing two people to flee.
The Anderson Police Department identified Love as the suspect on Jan. 15, 2025, and executed search warrants at a home on Chesterfield Drive. Officers found Love in possession of a Ruger Security-9 9mm handgun. Det. Nolan Schaefer led the investigation, and laboratory testing later confirmed the firearm matched ballistics from all three shooting locations.
Deputy Prosecutor Tyler Piraino presented the case for the state.
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