DATE: March 19, 2026<\/p>\n
CASE: Amyis Coogler (Case #25FE000044)<\/p>\n
PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney Celeena Winston, Homicide Unit<\/p>\n
Amyis Coogler was convicted by a jury of the second-degree murder of Corey Shearer. The jury also found true an allegation that Coogler personally discharged a firearm causing death.<\/p>\n
On August 5, 2022, Sacramento sheriff\u2019s deputies responded to a shooting at a house party and found the victim on the lawn with four gunshot wounds. The victim was transported to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. \u00a0Witnesses provided a description of the shooter who had fled the scene. Video footage showed Coogler hiding in a neighbor\u2019s backyard soon after the murder. \u00a0DNA collected from evidence matched Coogler, including a firearm that was determined to be used in the shooting.<\/p>\n
Coogler faces a maximum sentence of 40 years to life in prison. Sentencing is set for April 10, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in Department 10 before the Honorable Ernest Sawtelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DATE: March 19, 2026 CASE: Amyis Coogler (Case #25FE000044) PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney Celeena Winston, Homicide Unit Amyis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-229887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229887","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=229887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}