Sacramento shooting suspect got out of prison despite DA's opposition

[Eugene]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Sacramento shooting suspect got out of prison despite DA's opposition

Richard Winton
Tue, April 5, 2022, 5:07 PM

The man arrested for possessing a machine gun at the scene of Sunday's mass shooting in Sacramento was allowed to leave prison in February despite opposition from the county's district attorney to his early release.

Smiley Martin, 27, was convicted in 2018 and was serving a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault when he was released.

He was arrested Tuesday morning at a Sacramento hospital on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a stolen handgun that was converted to be a fully automatic weapon.

Police said he was injured in a gun battle in downtown Sacramento that broke out about 2 a.m. Sunday outside a series of nightclubs, causing the deaths of six people and injuring 12.

In a video confirmed by law enforcement, he is seen wielding the gun on social media on Saturday, just hours before the shooting. ...

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Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/sacramento-shooting-suspect-got-prison-210740581.html

[HeartachesNhangovers]

1. There's your answer

How to reduce gun crimes: Keep violent criminals in prison for the length of their sentence.

Also: If convicted of being a violent felon in possession of a machine gun and/or multiple actual and attempted murders, when should Mr. Martin get out of prison. Answer: Never.

[Demovictory9]

2. Yikes..mama Martin losing.both sons to jail from this mass shooting event

[WarGamer]

3. If we're not going to put people in prison for previous gun crimes...

Then don't cry or pout when they kill people.

[drmeow]

4. Cause domestic violence

isn't important enough to keep someone in jail unlike, say, enrolling your child in a better school so that child has a chance in life

[NickB79]

5. Running a Glock switch from the sound of it

A piece of plastic you can 3D print at home, or buy on the street. Takes a minute to snap into a Glock.

No easy way to stop them, unfortunately.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=318143

[Ace Rothstein]

6. Stop letting violent people out of prison early.

[rockfordfile]

7. "-possession of a stolen handgun that was converted to be a fully automatic weapon."

Way to easy to get a gun.

[Chuuku Davis]

8. This

Or maybe hold the person who releases the felon responsible in some way?

[Dial H For Hero]

9. +1