Man sentenced to 5 years in state prison for 2021 Costa Mesa shooting

A Norwalk man was sentenced Tuesday at the West Justice Center in Westminster to five years in state prison for the nonfatal shooting of a 30-year-old man in Costa Mesa last year.

Max Diamond, 30, was arrested in October and was held without bail. He pleaded guilty last month to one felony count of attempted murder and admitted to a sentencing enhancement for discharging a firearm causing great bodily injury or death.

Police responded to calls at around 5:40 a.m. in the 2000 block of Harbor Boulevard on March 2, 2021, and discovered the victim, who was identified only as a Costa Mesa man, with a gunshot wound to the neck.

The victim, police reported, had heard a disturbance between Diamond and a woman and went to the parking lot where the two were engaged in an altercation to investigate. When he came upon the couple, the victim stopped Diamond, then a parolee, from pursuing the woman, who was fleeing southbound on Harbor Boulevard. Officers said Diamond pulled a gun from his waistband and fired on the victim before taking off on foot.

Diamond was found by authorities in October at a gas station in Anaheim and was arrested without incident.

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