{"id":227694,"date":"2026-03-20T00:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227694\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:25:09","slug":"suspect-in-2022-rancho-cordova-house-party-shooting-convicted-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227694\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in 2022 Rancho Cordova house party shooting convicted of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sacramento County jury has convicted a man in connection with a deadly shooting that happened at a Rancho Cordova house party in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said on Thursday that Amyis Coogler was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Corey Shearer, 20. Jurors also found true an enhancement that Coogler used a gun in the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of people gathered for a party at a home on Ramsgate Way on August 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/corey-shearer.png#.png\" alt=\"corey-shearer.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Corey Shearer<\/p>\n<p>                Obtained by CBS News Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento County sheriff&#8217;s deputies responded to reports of gunfire and found Shearer on the front lawn with multiple gunshot wounds. Shearer was taken to a local hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video later showed Coogler hiding in a nearby backyard shortly after the shooting. Authorities also linked him to the shooting through DNA evidence, including on the gun determined to have been used in the killing.<\/p>\n<p>The case initially stalled as detectives worked to identify a suspect. In early 2023, investigators released surveillance images of a person of interest, prompting tips from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Coogler was later arrested in 2023 on unrelated robbery charges. Detectives said DNA collected during that arrest helped connect him to Shearer&#8217;s killing, leading to formal homicide charges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/suspect-arrested-in-2022-rancho-cordova-killing-of-corey-shearer\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">which were announced in February 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That February, CBS News Sacramento <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/call-kurtis-investigates-detectives-say-child-murdered-corey-shearer-at-rancho-cordova-house-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spoke with Shearer&#8217;s parents and his girlfriend<\/a> after law enforcement officials made the announcement. Shearer, who was from Ione, was remembered by them as someone who &#8220;loved everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the shooting, Coogler was 17 years old. Prosecutors ultimately pursued the case in adult court.<\/p>\n<p>Coogler now faces up to 40 years to life in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for April 10.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento County jury has convicted a man in connection with a deadly shooting that happened at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2727,121,357,123,122,135],"class_list":["post-227694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-rancho-cordova","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}