The judge gives long prison terms to a man who holds baby when they are shot by the police in Chollas View – NBC 7 San Diego

A man who held his little daughter when he was shot by a police officer in San Diego – and later sued the city for the shootout – was sentenced to 14 years and eight months in the state prison on Thursday.

The 30-year-old Steffon Nutall was shot on May 19 after the police said that he threatened his ex-girlfriend and then took her child out of the woman’s apartment in the woman’s apartment. The officers discovered him, hunted him on foot and he was shot several times. The child was not hit by the shots.

The man was suspected in an incident with domestic violence. Audra Stafford from NBC 7 reports.

In an explanation, the San Diego police said that Nutall had ignored the repeated command of officer Robert Gladysz to disarm himself and to arise, and then jumped up in the right hand with a kind of dark -colored object and prompted Gladysz to open the fire.

In video film material published by the police department, Gladysz tells a co -officer that he “saw no child”, but was given a weapon.

Nutall later sued the city of San Diego and the officer who shot him. In his federal complaint, Nutall claims that Gladysz applied “excessive, unnecessary and illegal” violence by opening the fire.

The gunshot wounds “left his ability to move his legs,” severely restricted and consequently needs the help of a wheelchair for mobility, “the complaint said.

Nutall appeared in a wheelchair on Thursday afternoon because he had charged a semi-automatic firearm and a criminal who was in possession of a firearm because of his guilty charges for children’s hazard.

Defender Troy Owens said that Nutall went into the house on May 19 because he believed that his daughter was abused and he intended to stop it.

But Owens said that poisoning impaired the judgment of his client about the events and that his subsequent actions are “not proud. But the underlying motivation to go into the house was to do nothing other than protect his daughter.”

In a statement before the court, Nutall repeated the explanation of his lawyer and at the same time denied that he brought a weapon into the apartment.

“I only went there to protect my daughter,” he said. “I did not come up with the intention of hurt someone, damage to someone, none of it.”

Nutall said “intoxication and anger took me” and he did not intend to put his daughter in danger.

But his statement also touched the police shootout, from which he said she was unjustified.

“I had no weapon. He had no reason to shoot me,” he said.

In his complaint, Nutall claimed that he had not granted the official “a reasonable or credible threat of violence”, nor “anything to justify the fatal violence against him”.

But the deputy district prosecutor Erin Casey said that Nutall was armed with a charged weapon and was heard in a 911 call, who threatened to shoot his ex-girlfriend. Casey also said that he had told an emergency dispatcher that if he answered, the police would “kill everyone in the house”.

The prosecutor also claimed that Nutall claimed that he had received a text message in which the alleged abuse of his child was described, “no evidence has ever been presented to confirm this.”