{"id":496385,"date":"2026-10-15T00:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496385\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:48:31","slug":"man-convicted-of-2020-attempted-murder-of-sacramento-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/496385\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of 2020 attempted murder of Sacramento police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A jury convicted a man on Oct. 13 of multiple counts, including the attempted murder of two Sacramento Police Department officers, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said the convictions stem from an incident that happened on April 11, 2020, where a police officer attempted to pull over Malcolm Wilcox, who had a warrant for attempted murder in Yuba County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wilcox initially fled from the officer at high speeds before he abruptly stopped, exited his vehicle and began firing shots at the officer with a semi-automatic firearm, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Another officer arrived at the scene and both officers shot Wilcox, who continued to shoot at the officers until he ran out of ammunition and surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Wilcox&#8217;s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 13, 2026. At this hearing, an allegation regarding a prior strike for first-degree burglary will be determined. He is facing up to\u00a074 years to life in prison.\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jury convicted a man on Oct. 13 of multiple counts, including the attempted murder of two Sacramento&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[723,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-496385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-crime","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496385","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=496385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}