A man from Camillo who stabbed an employee of Walmart and plowed his car in a group of high school students, killing one and injuring several others, in a self -proclaimed effort to cause mass violence this week at 85 years in prison, the authorities announced.
Prosecutors of the county of Ventura said that Austin Allen Eis, 26, led a series of “calculated attacks” on April 18, 2023, which began with a stab in the Simi valley and cultivated in EIS who slammed his car in adolescents who stood outside Westlake High School. Wesley Welling, 15, first -year student at high school, died during the attack.
Austin Allen Eis, 26, was sentenced to life this week for a series of violent attacks in April 2023.
(Office of the County Prosecutor of Ventura)
Hey, a former student of Westlake High School, later admitted that he had targeted adolescents of personal frustration and the desire to commit mass violence, prosecutors said. Text messages and communications have shown that he has held violent and extremist beliefs for years and admired mass murders, prosecutors said.
In February, Wesley’s parents watched the EIA, displaying little or no emotion, pleaded guilty to 10 crime accusations – including a first degree murder, a premeditated murder attempt, an assault with a deadly weapon and a false penalty of violence.
During the hearing of determining the sentence of two days this month, Wesley’s mother, Kelly, addressed EIS directly, telling him that no nightmare is worse than knowing that his face is the last thing that his son could have seen.
“You stole my son and the world of a boy who has become an incredible man,” she said in court, according to a press release. “At 15, he was already more a man than you could never be. You are not considered powerful. You are considered the loose that you have chosen to hurt the children. ”
Wesley Welling, a 15 -year -old first -year student in Westlake High School, was killed on April 18, 2023, when Austin Allen Eis led to a group of students with her car.
(Office of the County Prosecutor of Ventura)
EIS is considered a young offender and will be eligible for a parole hearing after serving 24 years, the Amber Lee prosecutor told Times.
Lee, an assistant district prosecutor, said the prosecutors had decided to accept the plea to save the victims and their families from the trauma of testimony of fatal assaults during a long trial.
“These families have endured unspeakable pain,” Lee said in a statement on Tuesday. “This sentence brings an end without forcing them to relive their trauma in trial.”
The violent unleashing lasted three locations, 30 miles and a few hours in the afternoon of April 18, 2023.
Eis Pepper sprayed and stabbed a Walmart Greeter in the Simi valley before attacking a second employee and trying to drag it, prosecutors said. He forced the entrance into the home of his family of his family, where he threatened several people with a knife.
He then led 20 minutes to Thousand Oaks and slammed his Toyota Camry in a group of students standing outside Westlake High School around 3:40 p.m., Wesley was killed and a 15 -year -old boy, a 14 -year -old girl and a 16 -year -old girl was seriously injured, according to the Sheriff’s Bureau of Ventura.
Adolescents described broken bodies, white nights and lasting trauma during the EIS condemnation hearing, according to the Bureau of the County Prosecutor of Ventura. Several Wesley friends attended court hearings with “Justice for Wesley” t-shirts.
Staff editor Richard Winton has contributed to this report.
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