MONTEREY COUNTY (KRON) — A Gilroy has pleaded guilty to assaulting his estranged wife and their 12-year-old daughter with a semi-automatic firearm, Monterey County
District Attorney Dean Flippo announced Tuesday.
Ismal Rosas, 35, also admitted to making criminal threats following a vehicle chase and shooting in Salinas last year, prosecutors said.
On March 19, 2015, Rosas sent several text messages to his estranged wife that included photographs of a firearm and repeated threats to kill her with it, prosecutors said.
Later that day, Rosas followed the victim to the parking lot of the Grocery Outlet store on North Main Street and attempted to get her to pull her car over.
The victim drove away, and Rosas chased her at high speeds throughout the city and tried to run her vehicle off the road several times, prosecutors said.
He then fired three shots at the victim’s vehicle with a stolen semi-automatic handgun. None of the bullets struck the victim’s vehicle.
Prosecutors said Rosas’ 12-year-old daughter was sitting in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Rosas was later apprehended in Gilroy.
Rosas is scheduled for sentencing on March 24, and he faces 13 years and eight months in state prison.