A Valencia man was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years in state prison for a BB gun attack in Stevenson Ranch that left a woman with permanent eye damage.
Superior Court Judge Hilleri Merritt imposed the term on Cory Allen Flenory, 29, who pleaded no contest Sept. 14 to assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem.
The woman was struck in the right eye by flying glass when Flenory fired a BB gun at her boyfriend’s car near The Old Road and West Pico Canyon on May 17, 2014, according to Deputy District Attorney Frances Young.
The woman’s boyfriend had become upset and followed Flenory’s vehicle closely after the defendant cut his vehicle off in a near-collision in a Walmart parking lot, and Flenory then drove up alongside the car and fired at the passenger side window, the prosecutor said.
The woman — who was sitting in the passenger seat — has undergone multiple surgeries, according to Young.
When he was arrested two days later, Flenory kicked out a patrol car window.
In addition to the assault and mayhem charges, Flenory pleaded no contest to corporal injury on a spouse involving an unrelated incident involving his wife roughly two weeks earlier that also involved a BB gun.
Flenory was convicted in Tulare County in 2005 of robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, and his latest sentence was doubled as a result.
He was sentenced to an additional eight months in state prison in connection with his guilty plea to an assault charge involving a fellow inmate in county jail while behind bars, according to Young.
— Wire reports