{"id":273962,"date":"2026-04-18T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273962\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:36:25","slug":"man-sentenced-to-14-years-to-life-for-fresno-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273962\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 14 years to life for Fresno shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

\"The The Fresno Police Department released a photo that shows an officer\u2019s baseball cap struck by a bullet after an exchange of gunfire with a 41-year-old man. The officer was not injured. FRESNO POLICE DEPARTMENT <\/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

This story was originally published April 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM.<\/p>\n

Related Stories from Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Joshua Tehee<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

Joshua Tehee covers breaking news for The Fresno Bee, writing on a wide range of topics from police, politics and weather, to arts and entertainment in the Central Valley.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno man has been given a life sentence after he nearly shot an officer in the head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-273962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273962","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=273962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}