California high school shooter’s bid for release in legal limbo

SAN DIEGO – Santana High School shooter Charles “Andy” Williams will continue to remain in custody as the courts sort out his case, which sits in a legal limbo between adult and juvenile courts.

A San Diego Juvenile Court judge revealed during a hearing Monday that another judge has put on pause Williams’ bid to be released from custody until an appeals court can take a look at his case. That pause came six days after yet another judge vacated Williams’ lengthy sentence for the deadly 2001 shooting on the Santee campus, a decision that could clear the way for his release.

Next week – March 5 – will mark 25 years since a 15-year-old Williams brought a gun to school and opened fire between class periods. Two people – Bryan Zucker, 14, and Randy Gordon, 17 – were killed. Eleven other students and two staffers were wounded…

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