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Anderson sentenced to five years in shooting case

Isaac Brambila
ibrambila@tahoedailytribune.com

The defendant in a case from a shooting last year was sentenced to five years in state prison after an El Dorado County Judge denied a motion to withdraw his plea.

Angelo Fitzgerald Anderson, who was 22 at the time of the incident, was sentenced to two years for assault with a firearm and an additional three years for an enhancement of using a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Anderson was previously scheduled to be sentenced on April 20, but he motioned to withdraw the plea during the sentencing hearing. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury continued the sentencing hearing and assigned attorney Adam T. Spicer to review the motion to determine whether there was grounds for withdrawal.



Anderson faced charges in connection to a Feb. 2014 shooting incident, when Anderson reportedly shot his gun three times at the truck of Dennis McQuitty, a former coworker.

Spicer said in court Monday that Anderson’s concerns included certain people who were involved in the preliminary hearing in April 2014. Anderson then said that, after reviewing the transcripts from the preliminary hearing and speaking to the defense, he did not find legal basis to uphold the plea-withdrawal motion.



Kingsbury subsequently denied the motion.

Kingsbury then upheld the stipulated terms that were agreed upon in the plea agreement.

Anderson, who’s been in custody for more than a year, had accumulated 440 days of credit, plus an additional 68 days for good behavior. That time will be reduced from the five-year sentence.

The charges date back to Feb. 19, 2014 when Anderson fired a 9mm gun three times at McQuitty’s pickup truck as McQuitty was driving away from the A & A Lake Tahoe Inn. McQuitty was reportedly Anderson’s former coworker.

Before the plea deal was reached, Anderson was headed to trial for charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and shooting at an occupied vehicle. On Monday, Kingsbury also denied a motion to postpone sentencing.

McQuitty reportedly died on Thursday of circumstances unrelated to the case. He submitted an impact statement to the court before his death but he did not intend for it to be read out loud in court, according to the prosecution.

Anderson will be turned over to the California Department of Corrections.


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