Cain Velasquez faces attempted murder charge after allegedly shooting at suspected child-abuser

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder, following an incident in San Jose, California, on Monday. Velasquez was arrested and charged on Monday after allegedly shooting at another person who is being charged with molesting a relative of Velasquez, according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office.

The person hit by the bullets was the stepfather of the accused and is expected to survive his injuries, according to police.

“Velasquez, 39, fired a handgun multiple times into a truck carrying Harry Goularte, and two older relatives and rammed the truck with his truck,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a release. “Goularte’s male relative, 63, was struck once, but expected to survive.

“The sad tragedy is that Mr. Velasquez chose to take the law into his own hands, endangering the public and everyone in the truck. This act of violence also causes more pain and suffering to his family.”

Goularte is facing felony child molestation charges. He was granted release from custody without bail with restrictions, according to the district attorney. 

Velasquez is being held without bail at the Santa Clara County jail and set for arraignment on Wednesday.

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Velasquez (14-3) has long been considered among MMA’s greatest heavyweights, a distinction he may have held on his own if not for multiple injuries that derailed his career. Velasquez went on a perfect 9-0 run, including a first-round knockout of Pride and UFC legend Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, to capture the UFC heavyweight championship by defeating Brock Lesnar via first-round TKO. He stumbled

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A Strongman and Energy Mentor Attempted The Rock’s Leg Day Workout

Strongman coach and YouTuber Joey Szatmary has previously tried some fairly hardcore exercise routines, like the infamous ‘Litvinov Workout’ and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s basic upper body and back exercise routine. For his most new stunt session, he’s attempting to full Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s grueling leg working day workout, which the actor applied to prepare for his Black Adam part and outlined for his followers on Instagram.

The workout contains leg extensions/leg curls, a compound pressing motion, chain lunges, pit shark squats, and barbell squats. All of these workout routines are carried out in huge sets, which means that Szatmary will complete all of them consecutively, only resting at the stop of a round.

Szatmary starts out by executing some pre-fatiguing with leg extensions and hamstring curls. He does 3 sets of 20 to 25 reps of each movements.

“The explanation we want to pre-exhaustion is mainly for greater brain-muscle mass link,” claims Szatmary. “If we fatigue that muscle in advance of time, we’re likely to be extra conscious of the muscle mass we’re utilizing, and you are really heading to get that melt away.” He notes that he usually does not use pre-tiredness reps as a energy athlete, due to the fact he needs to conserve as a lot power as doable to drive as substantially fat as he can through his efficiency-specific education. But The Rock’s regime is targeted on setting up muscle mass like a bodybuilder, so that brain-muscle connection is additional important than the quantity of body weight he can lift.

To complete warming up, he does some walking lunges and gentle barbell squats. Then he will get to the exercise.

“I am likely to speculate that he is undertaking this for hypertrophy functions, so for me, I am going to try to retain every little

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