8 years for man in assault
A 21-year-old Fairfield man was formally sentenced Thursday to eight years in state prison as a result of a plea deal that vacated an attempted murder charge for two counts of assault of with a deadly weapon.
Kendrick Tyrone Rose Jr. pleaded to the lesser charges April 11 in Department 11, where he initially faced the more serious charge of shooting and wounding an 18-year-old Fairfield resident multiple times in 2020.
During the morning session in the Justice Center in Fairfield, Solano County Superior Court Judge William J. Pendergast heard a presentence probation report, a Proposition 63 investigation report (the removal of firearms from people convicted of certain crimes), and Rose's prohibition from having firearms as a convicted felon.
Rose will remain in the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield until his transfer to a prison within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
When he agreed to the plea deal, with Alternate Public Defender Robert Boyle at his side, Rose waived his rights to a jury trial and pleaded no contest to the assault charges.
By entering no-contest pleas, Rose did not admit his guilt but essentially stated he would offer no defense.
Pendergast then found him guilty of the two assault charges, specifically using an assault-style weapon.
At a previous hearing, Pendergast denied a defense motion to reduce Rose's $750,000 bail and to release him on his own recognizance, most likely because of the nature of the alleged crime, which police investigators believe was gang-related.
During a later hearing, Pendergast ordered a psychiatric examination for Rose, in accord with Penal Code section 1026, which governs pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity. The examination results appeared to be the subject of a hearing, which according to court records, included a motion for unspecified diversion for Rose.
The shooting occurred in broad daylight May 17, 2020, in the 300 block of East Tabor Avenue in Fairfield.
The victim, an unidentified resident of Fairfield, was taken to a local hospital after being struck “in the extremities and in the chest” and recuperated there, Fairfield police investigators said.
Rose, who also lived in Oakland, was taken into custody after fleeing the scene on foot with the firearm, an assault rifle, said Lt. Jausiah Jacobsen, public information officer for the Fairfield Police Department.
“It does appear it is gangrelated,” he told The Reporter, adding that an officer in the area saw Rose fleeing “by sheer coincidence,” apprehended him on suspicion of attempted murder and recovered the firearm.