A San Ramon man was sentenced earlier this week to 40 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition in 2021 after being put on a supervised release program and then being involved in two shootings in 2023, one of which resulted in him being shot.
Rashad Shambray-Jones, 30, previously pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, back on Oct. 6, 2021.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, Shambray-Jones crashed a vehicle into a fence on federal property on Jan. 31, 2021. Responding police found a firearm and 19 rounds of ammunition on the front floorboard of the driver’s side of the vehicle.
Shambray-Jones was arrested for unlawfully possessing the firearm and ammunition due to his prohibited status as a convicted felon.
After pleading guilty to the charge, Shambray-Jones was placed in the Northern District of California’s Conviction Alternatives Program, a court-administered program entailing intensive supervision of participants before sentencing.
The program offers the potential of a reduced or non-custodial sentence for participants who complete it.
While still in the program, Shambray-Jones was captured on surveillance video firing about seven rounds from a firearm on May 5, 2023, in San Francisco’s Bayview District.
Shambray-Jones was arrested by San Francisco police in connection with the May 5 case after he went to San Francisco General Hospital on Sept. 1, 2023 seeking treatment for a gunshot wound soon after another shooting in the same area.
“Alternative justice programs are an important part of our criminal justice system,” U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey said in a statement. “They often help defendants overcome serious root, personal problems, such as addiction, that motivate their criminal conduct. But, when defendants masquerade through these programs while in fact continuing to terrorize our streets with gun violence, we will ask for sentences that appropriately address their deception and violent conduct.”
Shambray-Jones must also serve three years of supervised release once his prison term is completed.
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He should be serving LONGER. What a joke. This guy is a repeat repeat repeat gun/ felon offender, and will end up most likely killing someone.
This state is a joke!
Kinda makes you wonder what job skills he has that an employer would want.
“Alternative justice programs are an important part of our criminal justice system,”
I believe they are a waste of time and money.
Enough of this bleeding heart boloney.
You just can’t make this brother taking care of brother shtuff up. He was already a felon when caught in 2021… would”t that make Strike TWO. He ‘played the system by pleading guilty to strike two and got a ‘free to keep on running the streets” supervised😉 release program… Then, was caught again–after TWO separate cases of shootings in 2023…! So now, they’re gonna “ignore” his Third (and fourth) 2023 Strikes by taking away his “strike 2 “alternative justice” reward and make him finish serving the three years he would still have from breaking his promise about 2021?
Do you suppose they’ll let him out early for good behavior…or because the jail is over-crowded?
Decent citizens who carried a stick or pushed back – unarmed -against a police line on Jan 6 2021 are being sentenced to 4, 5 and more years…for protesting! No guns, No Ammo, No shooting (except by the cops) … No “brother takin’ care of brother” protections on Jan 6.!!!
I believe you are conflating the California Penal Code with the United States Government Code. There are no strikes in Federal Justice System.
That said, there is nothing stopping Becton from prosecuting him as well for the same incident . . . HaHaHa.
40 months, not so bad-lock up ur women & children 😪😮💨
…. how lenient can you get?! crazy loose… alternative justice working? what a joke
Rashad Shambray says it all!!
There’s just a lot of terrible marksmanship out there. Markspersonship. 🙃🔫
He got shot,,,good.Not a good enough shot though
These are the same politicians that tell us how much safer we would be if we would pass more gun control laws for law abiding citizens. Sounds logical right?
40 months……seriously? People have gotten more time for possessing an AR15 that did not have a maglock. While shooting at a gun range. This is insane.
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