DATE: August 25, 2025
CASE: Zachary Taylor Sheeran (Case #21FE014895)
PROSECUTOR: Deputy District Attorney Adriana Garcia, Major Crimes Unit
On August 15, 2025, the Honorable Alyson Lewis sentenced Zachary Taylor Sheeran to 72 years and 4 months to life in prison. On April 25, 2025, a jury convicted Sheeran of two counts of attempted murder, robbery, assault with a firearm, two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm against a peace officer and possession of an assault weapon. The jury also found true multiple gun use and great bodily injury allegations as well as an allegation that a victim was a peace officer. Aggravating factors that the defendant engaged in great violence, great bodily harm, threat of great bodily harm, or other acts disclosing a high degree of cruelty, viciousness, or callousness; and the defendant was armed with or used a weapon at the time of the commission of the crime were found true.
On August 28, 2021, Zachary Taylor Sheeran forced one of the victims to give him binoculars at gunpoint and then shot the victim in the back. Sheeran then barricaded himself in the garage of his house. After multiple people called the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office to report a shooting in the neighborhood, deputies responded. When Sheeran saw deputies arriving on scene across the street, he fired nine shots at two deputies from an unregistered .223 caliber assault rifle. The shots missed the two deputies by a few feet. The deputies were wearing full police uniforms including patches and badges when Sheeran started shooting through his garage window.
