Cain Velasquez Sentenced To Five Years In Attempted Murder Case, Gets Credit For Time Served

Cain Velasquez has been sentenced in regard to his charges of attempted murder and more. ESPN reports that the UFC and WWE alumnus was sentenced on Monday in Santa Clara County on charges that he pleaded no contest to back in August in relation to a 2022 shooting that took place in February of 2022.

ESPN notes that Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison with time served for the 1,283 days that he has already been in custody. He has been on house arrest since November of 2022. As a result, his sentence will be up in 542 days.

The shooting took place on February 28th, 2022. Velasquez 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 man Velasquez was chasing will go on trail on June 2nd on a felony charge of lewd acts with a minor. He has pleaded not guilty.

Velasquez recently said on Kyle Kingsbury’s podcast, “From what I can say as far as myself, the way that I handled things was not the way to do it. We cannot put the law in our own hands. … I know what I did, and I know what I did was very dangerous to other people, you know? Not just people involved, but innocent people. I understand what I did and I’m willing to do everything I have to [do] to pay that back.”