The gunman who terrorized a Thousand Oaks family and was deemed a “dangerous individual” by Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko is going back to prison after violating parole.
Nasarenko announced Thursday that convicted felon Michael Gabriel Hosey of Los Angeles was sentenced to five years in state prison on Oct. 1 — which also happened to be Hosey’s 50th birthday, according to court records.
This five-year term was the original sentence Hosey faced in April 2025, but the judge at that time suspended it and instead imposed 365 days in county jail and three years of formal probation. According to the DA, a judge has now imposed the five-year sentence after Hosey tested positive for illegal drugs.
While Hosey is currently heading to prison for violating parole, it was his 2021 crime that brought him into this position.
“On April 9, 2021, after a three-day cocaine binge with no sleep, Hosey began hallucinating that his estranged wife and daughters were being held hostage,” the Ventura County DA detailed in a release.
Armed with a loaded gun, authorities say Hosey tried to break into four other homes before arriving at a family’s Thousand Oaks home, occupied by a woman and her teenage daughter at the time.
“Hosey fired a shot and began pounding and smashing his head into the front door,” officials stated. “Fearing for her life, the homeowner quickly locked the door as Hosey fired two more shots into the door lock.”
The gunfire missed the mother and daughter as they retreated to the upstairs of the home. Hosey did not stop there, however. He went around to the back of the house and shot a glass sliding door, which he then entered through into the home.
Hosey, still armed, made his way upstairs while the victims were hiding in a closet, on the phone with 911.
The mother and daughter remained physically unharmed by the time law enforcement arrived, according to authorities, and Hosey was taken into custody.
Officials noted that in a separate case later that year, Hosey was again arrested the day after Christmas for being under the influence of a controlled substance. “After his release from jail that evening, he vandalized multiple vehicles at the Ventura County Government Center, breaking windows with his fists while claiming he was trying to rescue his daughter from harm,” the DA’s office said.
Hosey will now be imprisoned for five years for what authorities described as” a terrifying armed home invasion,” as well as the separate vandalism spree.
“This dangerous individual is now where he belongs, state prison,” said District Attorney Erik Nasarenko. “A woman and her teenage daughter fled upstairs in their home to escape multiple gunshots, which sowed fear and terror in the household. This criminal conduct demands the consequence of state prison.”
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