Cedric Carmond Steele entered the guilty plea on Monday in state district Judge Ruben Gonzalez’s court and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Steele, who has a history of mental illness, lit and threw a bag with six Molotov cocktails toward an outer door of Davis’ third-floor state office building in the 2400 block of West 7th Street on March 20, 2012.
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No one was hurt, thanks to the quick action of an employee who grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the fire. Davis was not in the building at the time.
“As we do with all victims, I conferred with Senator Davis prior to taking this plea,” said Deputy Chief District Attorney Jack Strickland. “Senator Davis was in agreement with the dis- position of this case. I was especially concerned with the gravity of this offense, given the public’s justifiable concern with at- tacks on and threats to public servants in this country.”
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