Ex-UFC fighter implores Trump to pardon former champion who shot at alleged child molester

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Former UFC star Cain Velasquez was sentenced to five years in prison Monday after he pleaded no contest in the 2022 shooting of a man he alleged molested his son.

Velasquez was arrested in February 2022 on attempted murder and multiple gun charges after police said he fired at a pickup carrying the man whom he alleged sexually assaulted his 4-year-old son. The man was later identified as Harry Goularte.

Prosecutors said Velasquez chased a pickup truck carrying the man for 11 miles through busy streets in the San Jose area, authorities said.

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Luke Rockhold reacts after his fight against Paulo Costa during UFC 278 at Vivint Arena Aug. 20, 2022, in Salt Lake City. (Alejandro Salazar/PxImages/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Velasquez will receive credit for 1,283 days served in prison, which amounts to about three years, according to KTVU. He has a year and a half left in his sentence.

However, one of his former UFC colleagues, Luke Rockhold, wants that number to shrink with the help of President Donald Trump.

"I think it just comes down to the fact that this whole system's wrong. He's done his time. He's proved he's not a threat to society. He's done countless things. I've gone with him to children's hospitals to visit kids and see the joy that he brings people. He's the least amount of threat to anyone in this world," Rockhold told TMZ Sports this week.

Cain Velasquez appears in the Superior Court Hall of Justice in San Jose, Calif., April 12, 2022. (Matt Erickson/USA Today)

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