Sentenced: Ryan Hopkins, 19, Sobbed As He Learned His Fate For "Hobo Hunting”

[Sugar Cookie]

A California man who was behind the wheel as his friend fatally shot a sleeping homeless grandmother with a pellet gun while they went “hobo hunting” sobbed as he learned his fate Friday.

Ryan Hopkins, 19, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting assault with a deadly weapon for driving his friend William Innes, who shot 68-year-old Annette Pershal while she slept outside a coffee shop in May, NBC San Diego reported.

“I want to take a second to say I’m sorry to all you guys and the pain you have to go through,” a tearful Hopkins told Pershal’s family in the courtroom. “I’m sorry we’re all here today.”

Hopkins received a suspended three-year prison term, which could be imposed if he violates his terms of probation after serving six months in jail.

Hopkins’ defense attorney told the court Innes shot Pershal with the pellet gun while his client was trying to connect to the car’s Bluetooth, hearing his friend say, “Watch this” before opening fire on the sleeping grandmother.

“Shooting at someone who is sleeping on the ground in a helpless, vulnerable state?” Hopkins attorney Vikas Bajaj asked the court, adding his accomplice’s actions were “disgusting.”

Bajaj said Hopkins didn’t know Innes’ intentions when he got in the car, despite the alleged shooter texting in a group chat that included his client, he was going “hobo hunting,” according to the outlet.

The prosecution said Hopkins pleading guilty meant he was well aware of the damage he caused.

“He drove himself and his codefendant across the street, stopped right before Ms. Pershal who was shot, suffering, and they watched 15 to 20 seconds to see if they hit their target,” the prosecution argued.

The grandmother was struck in the head, leg, and torso with pellets.

One pellet ended up rupturing her aorta.

Pershal was quickly rushed to the hospital with doctors calling her injuries “non-survivable,” according to authorities.

She was pronounced dead on May 11.

California man who drove while friend fatally shot sleeping homeless woman with pellet gun sobs as he is sentenced

“To find out someone had shot her with a pellet gun … you don’t even treat animals like that.”

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William Innes has been charged with first-degree murder and has not yet gone to trial.

 

[Future_Milf]

I mean, if her family offered help and she didn't take it, they're great. But, if it was my family member, I'd bash them over the head and handcuff them to the heater before I'd let them be some teenage idiots' prey on the street.

 

[Sejanus]

Punks should be used as pellet gun target practice

 

[Future_Milf]

Punks should be used as pellet gun target practice

I agree.

 

[Doctor Slaughter]

Punks should be used as pellet gun target practice

I was shot in the neck with a pellet gun. Yeah, it hurts, these little pricks need a boot in the ass sideways with no damned lube.

 

[agm8478]

Punks should be used as pellet gun target practice

Instead of a pellet gun, use a .22. I hear the average person can be shot MULTIPLE times before they bleed to death…..

 

[Freyja]

Unlike these two sorry maggots, she's in a much better place where she no longer suffers. They are stuck here.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A 19-year-old man who fatally shot a 68-year-old homeless woman in Serra Mesa last year with a pellet gun pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter.

William Innes is slated to be sentenced next month to five years and eight months in state prison for the killing of Annette Pershal, who police found unconscious on the morning of May 8, 2023, on Sandrock Road.

Prosecutors allege that prior to the shooting, Innes sent a message to a group chat that read, "I'm going hobo hunting with a pellet gun."

Innes and co-defendant Ryan Hopkins then drove to Pershal's encampment and Innes fired multiple pellets out of the car at the victim, according to prosecutors.

Pershal died in a hospital three days after the shooting. She was shot in the head, leg and torso, with one pellet rupturing her aorta, according to Deputy District Attorney Roza Egiazarian.

Brandy Nazworth called her mother "a hippie and a free spirit" and described her as a "human library of San Diego history and stories," who was generous with others despite her circumstances.

"She was a person, not just a thing to be used for target practice," Nazworth said.

Man who went ‘hobo hunting' and killed homeless woman in Serra Mesa gets plea deal

Prosecutors allege that prior to the shooting, William Innes sent a message to a group chat that read, “I’m going hobo hunting with a pellet gun.”

www.nbcsandiego.com

 

[cubby]

I expected a whole hell of a lot more for both of these little stupid moronic creeps. But really 5 years for the freak that actually shot and killed her? That's a ridiculous sentence.

 

[thuumpr]

I expected a whole hell of a lot more for both of these little stupid moronic creeps. But really 5 years for the freak that actually shot and killed her? That's a ridiculous sentence.

Hopkins received a suspended three-year prison term, which could be imposed if he violates his terms of probation after serving six months in jail.
William Innes is slated to be sentenced next month to five years and eight months in state prison for the killing of Annette Pershal, who police found unconscious on the morning of May 8, 2023, on Sandrock Road.

Buddy got probation. Why would you expect the guy 'hunting' receive more than what he got. It's California for heaven's sake!

 

[Sugar Cookie]

A young man who fatally shot a 68-year-old homeless woman in Serra Mesa last year with a pellet gun was sentenced to five years and eight months in state prison.

William Innes, 19, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with the killing of Annette Pershal, who police found unconscious on the morning of May 8, 2023.

Hopkins, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty last year to assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to one year in county jail, plus probation. Hopkins' sentence included a suspended three-year prison term, which could be imposed if he violates his terms of probation.

During the sentencing hearing, Innes apologized to the victim's family members in attendance.

"I can't change what happened, but I wish I could," Innes said. "That's the only thing I can say that hopefully will make you feel better about what happened, which it probably never will."

Pershal's daughter, Brandy Nazworth told Innes, "The only good that can come from this senseless tragedy is if you use it to become a better man. She may have looked like just a dirty homeless person to you, but she was still my mom and the grandmother to my kids. ... She was a person, not just a thing to be used for target practice."

Man sentenced for killing homeless woman with pellet gun in Serra Mesa

A young man who fatally shot a 68-year-old homeless woman in Serra Mesa last year with a pellet gun was sentenced to five years and eight months in state prison.

www.nbcsandiego.com

His apology at the 0:39 mark means nothing.

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Ugly little effer just drowning in remorse. NOT.