Cain Velasquez Pleads No Contest To Attempted Murder, Gun Charges

Cain Velasquez is pleading not guilty on an attempted murder charge as well as nine gun related charges. As reported back in March of 2022, the UFC and WWE alumnus was arrested after he engaged in a car chase and shot at a man who was accused of molesting his son at a daycare. Velasquez engaged in a high-speed chase with a car that that contained the accused sex offender, his stepfather, and mother. Velasquez rammed his own vehicle into the car and fired multiple shots, but missed the man and instead hit the stepfather. Velasquez was charged with attempted murder and the gun charges shortly after.

The East Bay Times reports that Velasquez entered a no contest plea to all the charges on Friday, less than a month before the trial was set to start on September 9th. Velasquez plead no contest in exchange for leniency in sentencing; he will avoid a mandatory life sentence as premeditation was dropped from the case.

A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for October 18th, 2024, though the report nots that an actual sentence is not expected until the end of 2024. The man accused of molestation was charged with felony charge of a lewd and lascivious act with a child and remains in the pretrial phase.