A man who was holding his infant daughter when he was shot by a San Diego police officer — and later sued the city over the shooting — pleaded guilty this week to charges of child endangerment, assault with a semi-automatic firearm and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Steffon Nutall, 30, was shot last May 19 after police say he threatened his ex-girlfriend, then took their child from the woman’s Chollas View-area apartment. Officers spotted him, then chased him on foot and he was shot multiple times, according to police. The child was not struck by the gunfire.
Following the guilty pleas entered Monday, Nutall is expected to be sentenced next month to a state prison term of between 10-16 years, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office. In a lawsuit filed last fall against the city of San Diego and the officer who shot him, Nutall alleges Officer Robert Gladysz used “excessive, unnecessary and unlawful” force by opening fire on him.
The gunshot wounds have left Nutall “severely limited in his ability to walk or move his legs, and consequently, [he] needs the aid of a wheelchair for mobility,” the complaint states…