Ex-UFC champ Cain Velasquez reportedly charged with attempted murder after alleged shooting in Bay Area

(Editor’s note: Story updated at 2:21 a.m. ET to include booking information; updated at 8:23 a.m. to include court date; updated at 9:51 to include report of attempted murder charge.)

Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged shooting incident that left one man injured on Monday, according to TMZ on Tuesday morning.

NBC Bay Area, citing “sources with direct knowledge of the investigation,” first reported the news of Velasquez’s involvement in the shooting in Morgan Hill, Calif. The San Jose Police Department, which is investigating the shooting, has yet to provide details as of Tuesday morning.

Online records showed late Monday night that Velasquez was being held at the County of Santa Clara Department of Corrections facility without bail. Velasquez is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday at noon PT.

The San Jose police media relations office tweeted that the man injured in the shooting was shot “at least once” near the intersection of Monterey Highway and Bailey Avenue. He was “transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injures.” A motive was unknown. The shooting was reported at 3:14 p.m. local time, police said.

Velasquez, 39, trains at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, about 25 miles north of where the shooting happened. He was born in Salinas, roughly 40 miles south of Morgan Hill.

Velasquez hasn’t competed in MMA since a 26-second knockout loss to current heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in February 2019. Since then he’s dabbled in professional wrestling with WWE, as well as in Mexico.

Velasquez was a two-time UFC heavyweight champion. Various injuries plagued him throughout his career.