A parolee has been sentenced to 247 years to life in state prison for killing a man in Linda Vista and wounding another man in La Jolla over a drug debt.
The maximum sentence was handed down to Joseph Anthony Hill, 46, by San Diego Superior Court Judge Fred Link, who said Hill would not be paroled because of the long sentence.
A jury convicted Hill in April of first-degree murder in the December 2013 shooting of Sean O’Toole, 47, and attempted murder of Travis Bondurant, 39, who was shot in the stomach at a La Jolla motel later that night.
Hill fled to Point Loma and police officers saw him get into a vehicle after leaving a residence on Catalina Boulevard. As he drove away, he struck an officer and pinned him against a vehicle.
In response, several officers fired shots at Hill in the car, wounding him. He was taken to a hospital and later to jail after he recovered.
Link ordered Hill to pay $2,801 to the victims’ compensation board. He only received five days credit because his time in jail went towards another sentence he received in another case.
Hill received 50 years consecutively for personally using a gun in a homicide, and attempted homicide, and extra years for causing great bodily injury to Bondurant. He also received more years for being a felon in possession of a firearm.