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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.
Williams was sentenced in adult court to 50 years to life in prison. Over the last several years, changes in the law and an evolving approach regarding youth offenders cleared the way for Williams to ask to have his sentence vacated on the grounds that it could be considered de facto life without parole.
Last month, San Diego Superior Court Judge Lisa Rodriguez found that, based on case law, Williams’ sentence was equal to life without parole. She granted his request and
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