A man was sentenced to about 55 years in prison Friday after a jury convicted him of four counts of first-degree assault for shooting at a vehicle in Lakewood occupied by a family returning home after a coastal vacation.
Before deciding on that punishment, Pierce County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Andrews told the defendant, 34-year-old Francisco Z. Cepeda Baldiva, that indiscriminately firing a gun into a car full of people is “horrifying.”
“That says to our society that you aren’t safe anywhere that you go,” Andrews said…