LANCASTER – A 36-year-old Lancaster man was sentenced Friday to 54 years and eight months in state prison for shooting a man and assaulting another in 2015, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Brandon Lee Colbert was convicted by a jury on June 15 of five felonies: one count of willful, deliberate, premeditated attempted murder; one count of possession of a firearm by a felon with four or more priors; one count of possession of ammunition; and two counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm, according to Deputy District Attorney Amy Murphy.
The jury also found true that Colbert personally and intentionally discharged a firearm causing great bodily injury.
According to evidence presented at the trial, the shooting occurred in September of 2015, after a bar fight involving a female patron and a female bartender at The Britisher in Lancaster.
Colbert’s girlfriend soon became involved in the fight before several people intervened to stop the fighting, the prosecutor said.
Colbert then pulled out a gun and pointed it at one of the men who intervened in the brawl. The man was planning to defend himself from Colbert when another man stepped in to prevent a fight, the prosecutor added.
Both men left the bar, but the Colbert followed them outside and shot the man who had prevented the fight, according to testimony at the jury trial.
The victim survived the shooting.
The case was investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Lancaster Station.
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AVAG says
The Britisher never fails to disappoint.
JB says
Avenue I, as sleazy as it is, has fewer panhandlers than The BLVD.
Laughing says
That would be due to the lower incomes, so less money to demand out of others. Also less polite people that may kick your teeth in.
You special says
What a disgusting POS. You shoot someone because they stop violence. You deserve to rot in jail, to bad its at tax layers expense. Scum
LaTresha Colbert says
It’s nice to know that everyone in your family is a law abiding citizen. Where you an eyewitness? This is for the POS comment. I’m glad that while I’ve spent the last 20 years defending my country so that you could make an uninformed opinion, that you are standing for what’s right. You don’t know him or his family, so my suggestion would be that you pray if you’re a God fearing person, and throw one in for yourself for judging someone. Nice to know that you’re in too of the crime section. Excuse me if I don’t applaud your outrage.
Shane Falco says
When people do something bad, we as a society should stop minimizing and hand wringing about not judging them for their sheer atrocities to others. It’s perfectly acceptable to be mortified at another persons actions and want them to be removed from society and live in a box.
There used to be some shame in acting like a criminal and ruining your families good name. Luckily some families still instill those values.
Matt_K says
I think what I find truly jarring about some of these people who comment on here is how they expect is to have complete sympathy for criminals. Worse, they expect me to believe in hmmmm…let’s call it “Jailhouse Jeezus”….this magical entity that (interestingly) is only evoked when someone keeps acting stup;d and getting themselves in trouble, or has just killed someone or keeps making a spate of bad choices. Suddenly, “Jailhouse Jeezus” is invoked and were all supposed to forget about actions and consequences and just operate on sympathy for the aggressor (never the victim, of course). It’s one of the reasons I don’t adhere to organized mainstream religion, and never have, quite frankly.
Tim Scott says
I agree. People who consider other people to be cockroaches should be exterminated, post haste. No more hand wringing and tolerance.