{"id":271598,"date":"2026-04-16T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271598\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:35:08","slug":"davis-picnic-day-shooting-suspect-sentenced-to-30-months-in-federal-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/271598\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Picnic Day shooting suspect sentenced to 30 months in federal prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sacramento man identified as one of the shooters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/davis-community-park-shooting-picnic-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a 2025 Picnic Day shooting<\/a> in Davis has been sentenced to federal prison, prosecutors announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Allen Davis, 20, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edca\/pr\/davis-picnic-day-shooter-sentenced-30-months-prison-separate-federal-firearm-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was sentenced to 30 months<\/a> in prison for being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/davis-picnic-day-shooting-suspect-federal-charge\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a felon in possession of a firearm<\/a>, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Eastern District of California said. He had faced up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Federal investigators say Davis was one of the shooters in the April 12, 2025, shooting at Rainbow City Park during Picnic Day festivities. Three people \u2014 two teenagers and a 24-year-old woman \u2014 were injured in the gunfire, but all survived.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at Community Park, about a mile from the UC Davis campus, during one of the city&#8217;s largest annual events.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, law enforcement later searched Davis&#8217; Sacramento apartment and found a short-barreled AR-15-style pistol loaded with 23 rounds of ammunition. Prosecutors said Davis was prohibited from possessing firearms due to a prior felony gun conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was first arrested in May 2025 after detectives served a search warrant at his home, where they also recovered a firearm. He initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/davis-picnic-day-community-park-shooting-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pleaded not guilty in Yolo County<\/a> to charges including assault with a deadly weapon and multiple firearms violations.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said early on that they believed more than one person opened fire that day. A second suspect, 19-year-old Stephon Stroman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/davis-picnic-day-shooting-second-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">later turned himself in<\/a> to the Yolo County Jail in December 2025 on firearm-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Stroman was arrested on Dec. 30, 2025, and pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of carrying a loaded firearm in public.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not publicly released a motive for the shooting, though city officials previously said it was not believed to be a random act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI led the federal investigation, with assistance from Davis police and several regional law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento man identified as one of the shooters in a 2025 Picnic Day shooting in Davis has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49891,121,123,122,135,14771],"class_list":{"0":"post-271598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-davis-news","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-shooting","13":"tag-yolo-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271598","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=271598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}