{"id":273215,"date":"2026-04-17T21:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273215\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:46:24","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-attempted-murder-of-fresno-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273215\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder of Fresno officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joshua Tehee
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FRESNO, Calif. \u2014 A Fresno man has been given a life sentence after he nearly shot an officer in the head<\/a> during a shootout last year with police that left him critically wounded.<\/p>\n

Bradley Nicholson, Sr. was sentenced in superior court on Thursday to 14 years to life in state prison (plus an additional consecutive 14 years) for the Dec. 7 incident, in which he shot at a Fresno police officer with a .380 caliber pistol.<\/p>\n

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The officer recognized Nicholson in an area near Clinton and West avenues and was attempting a post-release community supervision compliance check when Nicholson pulled and fired a gun, hitting the top of the officer\u2019s department-issued baseball cap.<\/p>\n

Police body camera footage<\/a> shows the officer returned fire as the man fled.<\/p>\n

It was a second officer who eventually shot Nicholson before the man barricaded himself behind a vehicle in a carport. He surrendered after negotiations and was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Last year, Nicholson pled no contest to one count of attempted murder of a peace officer while personally using a firearm, and one count of assault on a peace officer with a semi-automatic firearm, the Fresno County District Attorney\u2019a Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n

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\n The suspect, already on lifetime parole for killing a livery cab driver during a botched robbery when she was a teen, was arrested for grand larceny and false personation\n <\/p>\n

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