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Cantonment Man Sentenced To 15 Years For Attempted Murder At Gas Station
April 22, 2021
A Cantonment man has been sentenced to prison for attempted murder at an Escambia County gas station in May 2020.
William David Nicholson II, entered a plea to attempted first degree premeditated murder with a firearm, possession of firearm by a convicted felon, criminal mischief ($1000 or greater) and, on a second case, to grand theft.
He was sentenced to 15 years in state prison with a 10 year minimum mandatory on the attempted murder charge and a three year minimum mandatory sentence for possession of firearm by convicted felon. Nicholson, who was sentenced by Judge Jennie Kinsey, will be required to serve the minimum mandatory sentences day for day.
On May 13, 2020, Nicholson attempted to sell marijuana to the victim. The victim did not pay Nicholson for the narcotics.
Nicholson seemed to realize this shortly after the transaction had occurred, and a brief high speed chase ensued between their two vehicles. After pulling into the parking lot of a gas station in the 8600 block of Pine Forest Road at I-10, Nicholson exited his vehicle with a firearm and fired two shots toward the victim. At least one projectile went into the victim’s vehicle, striking the victim. The victim suffered a non-life threatening injury to the head and was taken to a local hospital.
Nicholson then fled the scene.
Nicholson has multiple prior felony convictions including three for burglary, grand theft and three for grand theft of a firearm.
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6 Responses to “Cantonment Man Sentenced To 15 Years For Attempted Murder At Gas Station”
Pay that which you owe.
I agree, lock up the buyers as well. Do not compare this to sexual assault Taylon. Completely different, both parties are doing something illegal. Make pot legal for one. For two, judges have a playbook of sentences for most crimes. Throw that out and hand out harsher sentences. The judicial system is failing, the correctional system is as well. Probation and parole systems under the correctional system are mostly privatized due to lack of funds and personnel. The judges in this county are too lenient for most serious crimes. I believe in judicial discretion to a point, but jails and prisons are full. Let the pot criminals out time served, misdemeanor only, no felonies. LEO are on edge due to all the cop killings I would think. most will quit soon, they have little to no backing. Forget 10-20-Life. Go straight to life sentencing, one appeal only. Judges get term limits including SCOTUS and state supreme court/district courts. Will not stop anytime soon, total lack of respect for fellow man. Enabled, self entitled people out there. Blame game and lack of self respect or accountability.
@Taylon I agree with you. I haven’t been in Florida long enough to know if it’s tough on crime, but pot should definitely be legalized: It’s not a catalyst to crime or violence, it helps a multitude of ailments, illnesses, and chronic conditions when other remedies can’t (which are mostly manufactured and not natural), it tends to MELLOW people out and for crying out loud, it’s a plant on God’s green Earth. That can’t be said about most anything else people use for recreation, INCLUDING alcohol.
I bet the majority of people who are against legalizing pot drink alcohol.
To those who are naysayers: I’m like Taylon; I’m not Dem or conservative, I abhor politicians and believe almost every system in this country is seriously flawed to some extent (political, legal, judicial, law enforcement, healthcare, insurance, welfare, etc.) And I haven’t smoked pot in almost 40 years and didn’t like it the few times I did. But if it helps people and doesn’t affect your life, why would you NOT want it legalized? And don’t say “because it’s a drug.” So is alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, aspirin…need I go on?
@area resident, why would you want to overburden an already overburdened system with a victimless crime? Buying pot doesn’t hurt anyone, so why lock them up? You’re the one who ends up paying for it. Besides, your logic is possibly flawed in this case. The guy DIDN’T buy it, right?
Thank you Judge Kinsey. Finally a Judge with a backbone.
@AreaResident I bet you victim shame too don’t you? “She shouldn’t have been wearing that blah blah blah”
If it was legalized then we wouldn’t have illegal transactions causing people to get shot at. How many people get shot at for illegal beer sales? If the victim is buying pounds of illegal drugs then that’s an entirely different story, but I don’t want to clog an already overburdened prison system with petty stuff.
I’m not a Dem, but I’m not a Republican neither. Both parties are are horribly flawed these days.
What we need is to be able to get rid of sentences in the articles that say “…has multiple prior felony convictions…” How many prior felony convictions does it take to lock up those people for the rest of their lives?
Heck there’s the other article about the 8-time convicted felon that has been arrested 3 times in the past month and was out on almost half a million dollars worth of bonds. How does that even happen?
Florida has a lot of things I love about it, but being tough on major crimes doesn’t seem to be one of them.
I know I’m a day late and dollar short, but how about locking up the buyers too! That might slow down supply and demand. Oh no, can’t do that. The Dems want to make it legal, and so it continues.