A 59-year-old man has been convicted and sentenced to 46 years four months in prison for firing a handgun from his second-floor apartment balcony at a passing truck, a neighbor's house and three police officers in Oakdale nearly three years ago.
Daniel Lloyd Rich of Oakdale was convicted and sentenced during a Jan. 25 hearing, the Stanislaus County district attorney's office reported Friday.
He pleaded no contest to three counts of assault on a police officer with a semiautomatic gun, one count of firing a gun at a home and one count of firing a gun at an occupied vehicle.
Each charge of assaulting a police officer had an enhancement for using a gun in the crime, which lengthened Rich's prison sentence. The case was prosecuted by Deputy District Attorney Tracy Roland.
About 3:30 p.m. March 5, 2009, Rich fired multiple shots from Golden Empire Apartments, just north of West F Street in Oakdale, prosecutors said.
One bullet hit the hood of the passing truck heading east on F Street. The driver called police to report gunfire had hit his truck.
Other callers reported shots had been fired at a nearby house. Prosecutors said four bullets hit a house with a woman and her child inside.
As many as 60 officers and deputies from Oakdale, Modesto, Ceres and the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department responded to the shooting. They surrounded the area and closed a portion of F Street to traffic for more than an hour.
Oakdale police officers took positions outside Rich's apartment. Officers ordered Rich to come out, but Rich then fired multiple shots at the officers, prosecutors said.
Rich dropped his handgun and surrendered when one of the officers fired back. Nobody was injured by gunfire.
At the time, police officials said they believed Rich fired shots randomly at the truck and the house before firing the gun at the officers.
Bee staff writer Rosalio Ahumada can be reached at rahumada@modbee.com or (209) 578-2394.
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