Cain Velasquez sentenced to prison after pleading no contest to attempted murder

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been sentenced to 5 years successful prison, minus clip served, for a 2022 shooting.

Velasquez, 42, appeared astatine a sentencing proceeding Monday astatine Santa Clara County Hall of Justice successful San Jose, Calif., aft pleading nary contention to charges, including attempted murder, and was handed a five-year sentence, according to NBC Bay Area.

Seventy spectators were connected manus successful the courtroom, according to KTVU FOX 2. Impact statements from Velasquez, his 15-year-old daughter, and his woman were read, successful summation to statements from shooting people Harry Goularte and his family.

While prosecutors asked the justice for 30 years to life, the defence requested nary situation time. Judge Arthur Bocanegra handed retired his last ruling aft a luncheon recess.

The charges stemmed from a February 2022 incidental erstwhile Velasquez drove his motortruck successful a high-speed pursuit successful pursuit of different vehicle. Velasquez fired a handgun astatine the vehicle, which was aboriginal revealed to beryllium carrying Goularte and family, who ran the daycare Velasquez's then-4-year-old lad attended. Goularte had been arrested days anterior for allegedly molesting the young lad repeatedly.

The gunfire from Velasquez penetrated the Goularte's conveyance and struck Goularte's stepfather, Paul Bender, causing an wounded to the man's arm. The Goularte household has repeatedly voiced fearfulness for their lives.

Velasquez spent astir 9 months incarcerated successful a jailhouse compartment and was denied bail until an entreaty resulted successful a antithetic judge's support of conditional release. Judge Bocanegra pointed to Velasquez's lasting successful the assemblage and the swell of nationalist enactment and protestation arsenic boosting his decision.

Velasquez had remained connected GPS monitoring and was permitted to partake successful assorted nonrecreational wrestling matches and MMA-related events.

In an interrogation days anterior to the sentencing, Velasquez said helium afloat accepted work for his actions and was consenting to look the music.

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“What I did was not correct,” Velasquez said. “I recognize that. I paid, and I’ll wage immoderate other arsenic acold arsenic what I person to bash to wage each that back. I don’t deliberation I tin wage it back, but I tin ever larn from my mistakes and assistance others. It’s conscionable accusation that you ne'er cognize anybody. Trust your kids. Have that unfastened connection with your kids. When you bash spell to the bath with them erstwhile (they’re) precise young, you tin enactment your mode successful determination arsenic acold arsenic talking to them astir what’s due and what is not, truthful they cognize to archer you and they tin ever archer you whenever thing is not correct. So arsenic acold arsenic that goes, it’s fundamentally that the much we get consciously alert of ourselves, the much that airy shines connected acheronian things, particularly things similar that.”

“... Even with that household and what they’ve done, I can’t person hatred similar that for them due to the fact that determination are things that I person to determination connected to and springiness emotion to my kids and springiness emotion to the radical around. I’ve got to stock this with everybody, truthful I can’t springiness hatred to them astatine all. I privation them healing successful the champion way, immoderate that is. I privation that for them. I recognize that they person traumas, arsenic well. It’s not close to dispersed it – no. I’m gladsome they themselves person stopped due to the fact that they can’t signifier immoderate much arsenic acold arsenic daycare. With my ain time, I’ve forgiven them and everything else, and I cognize my kids are great.”

In summation to attempted murder, Velasquez had been charged with shooting astatine a centrifugal conveyance oregon craft (one count), battle with a firearm (three counts), battle with a deadly limb (three counts), willfully discharging a firearm from a conveyance (one count) and carrying a loaded firearm with intent to perpetrate a felony (one count). He faced 20 years to beingness for the attempted execution complaint alone.

Goularte has pleaded not blameworthy to 1 complaint of lewd acts with a insignificant and is acceptable for a June 2 trial.

There is besides a abstracted civilian suit filed by the Velasquez's against the Goularte household and their associated businesses. The daycare, which was tally by Goularte's parent Patricia, has unopen down.

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