{"id":328857,"date":"2026-05-23T03:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:36:21","slug":"defendant-convicted-of-shooting-murder-at-goemans-bar-sacramento-county-district-attorneys-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328857\/","title":{"rendered":"Defendant Convicted of Shooting Murder at Goeman\u2019s Bar \u2013 Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">CASE: Joel Zeigler (Case #22FE006710)<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">PROSECUTOR: Principal Criminal Attorney Matthew Moore, Homicide Unit<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On May 21, 2026, Joel Zeigler was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, attempted murder and three counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On April 17, 2022, Joel Zeigler was at the Goeman\u2019s Bar on Franklin Boulevard when he saw the intended victim.\u00a0 Zeigler believed that victim had been involved in a prior shooting of his brother. Zeigler fired seven shots at that victim, hitting him as well as three other bystanders. \u00a0One of the bystanders was struck in the back and killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">An allegation that Zeigler has a prior strike conviction for robbery and carjacking will be determined at the sentencing hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Zeigler faces a maximum sentence of 123 years to life in prison.\u00a0 Sentencing is set for July 24, 2026, at 1:30 PM in Department 16A before the Honorable Steve White.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASE: Joel Zeigler (Case #22FE006710) PROSECUTOR: Principal Criminal Attorney Matthew Moore, Homicide Unit On May 21, 2026, Joel&hellip;\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-328857","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\/328857","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=328857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328857\/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=328857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}