Suspect in Sacramento deputy killing in custody
Rancho Cordova man, 38, has long criminal record going back to 1998
The suspect in custody after the shooting that killed a Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy and injured another Monday has been identified as Anton Lemon Moore, a 38-year-old Rancho Cordova man, the Sheriff ’s Department said Tuesday in a statement.
Sudden gunfire at what was expected to be a routine disturbance call killed Deputy Mark Stasyuk, 27, and injured Deputy Julie Robertson, 28, in Rancho Cordova, according to Sheriff Scott Jones.
Moore allegedly fired upon officers immediately as they responded at about 1:44 p.m. to a call from the Pep Boys auto parts store on Folsom Boulevard, Jones said. Stasyuk and Robertson returned fire, Jones said.
Moore fled and was shot multiple times by two other deputies and taken into custody at a nearby furniture store parking lot following the incident at Pep Boys, Jones said. Moore, who also went by the name Anton Lemon Paris, was transported to UC Davis Medical Center. He remains hospitalized but his injuries are not life threatening, the Sheriff ’s Department said.
Moore has a criminal record going back to 1998, according to Sacramento Superior Court records.
“He was no stranger to us,” said Sacramento County Sheriff spokesman Sgt. Shaun Hampton. “He was no stranger to Sacramento area law enforcement.”
While many of the criminal charges Moore has faced in the past involve guns, he has no felony convictions.
His most recent run-in with the law occurred with an arrest in April 2016 when he was charged with two misdemeanors for having a concealed and loaded weapon. One charge was dismissed and he pleaded no contest to the other, resulting in a sentence of 15 days in jail and three years of informal probation, according to court records.
In 2007, Moore was arrested on three misdemeanor counts. Two related to domestic violence were dismissed and he again pleaded no contest to a single charge for disturbing the peace. He was placed on informal three-year probation in August 2008.
Moore’s most serious criminal charges occurred in 2003, when he was tried for three felony counts for assault with a deadly weapon and firing a weapon at an inhabited dwelling or vehicle. A jury acquitted him of the assault charges and the third charge was dismissed.
Moore faced a separate case in 2003 where two misdemeanor charges related to assault and battery were eventually dismissed.
Moore’s first arrest in Sacramento County occurred in March 1998 when he was charged with disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. Both charges were dismissed, according to court records.
Moore also was licensed as a security guard for a time under the name Anton Paris and had a permit to carry an exposed weapon and a baton, according to records with the state Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
Those licenses expired in 2010 and have been canceled. The state bureau said his licenses were canceled simply because he did not seek to renew them and that it has no record of disciplinary action against him.
Multiple active social media accounts and music videos suggest Moore is a Sacramentobased rapper and producer who goes by the moniker “Mista Flow.”
Music by Mista Flow can be found on YouTube and Soundcloud. Moore can be seen in dozens of uploaded music videos on that channel, often freestyle rapping in a Sacramento Kings jersey.
In one music video, Moore can be seen rapping in front of Quick Fit Tires in Rancho Cordova. The tire store is 3 miles west of Pep Boys on Folsom Boulevard.
The YouTube account dates back about 11 years and contains more than 300 uploaded videos.
Several of the social media accounts and video platform accounts include usernames and bios containing both Anton L. Paris and Mista Flow, with some suffixed “916.”
A video posted to the Mista Flow Instagram page in February shows a man holding an assault-style rifle while bragging about the gun. The man’s face can’t be seen.
“Let them mother----- know what it is,” the man says. “I slide the 30 in that mother---- like it’s nothing.”
The “30” could refer to a 30-round magazine or possibly a .30 Carbine, a cartridge used in rifles.
In another Instagram post from the same month, the same voice can be heard commentating over a YouTube video titled “Police getting knocked out compilation,” seen on a computer screen.
“I hit whoever, any time I feel like I have the necessity to do so,” the man says as he watches a police officer in the YouTube video being kicked in the chest.
Photos posted to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram suggest Moore has at least one daughter.
Mista Flow is the main artist promoted on a website called Immortal Souls Publishing Co. The website says the recording company was established in 2001.
The only phone number listed on ISP’s website redirects to a business called Tech Hobby Craftable Tinctures, aka THC Tinctures. Internet search results list THC Tinctures as a made-to-order clothing business based out of Rancho Cordova. No physical address is given.