A judge on Friday sentenced a man to 74 years to life in prison for firing a gun at two Sacramento police officers while trying to evade arrest six years ago on an attempted murder warrant out of Yuba County.
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Ernest Sawtelle sentenced Malcolm Xavier Wilcox Sr., 33, in the shooting, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Wilcox’s prior first-degree burglary conviction, a strike under California’s “Three Strikes” law, was considered in his sentencing.
Last month, a jury found Wilcox guilty of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault on a peace officer with a semiautomatic firearm and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm…