A camroat man who stabbed a Walmart employee and He burned his car In a group of high school students, killing one and wounding several others, in a self -proclaimed effort to cause massive violence, it was a sentence this week to 85 years of life imprisonment, authorities said.
Ventura County Prosecutors say Austin Allen Eis, 26, carried out a series or “calculated attacks” On April 18, 2023, that was with a stabbing in Simi Valley and culminated with EIS hitting his car in the teenagers who were standing outside Westlake High School. Wesley Welling, 15, first year at high school, died in the attack.
Austin Allen EIS, 26, was a sentence to 85 years of life imprisonment this week for a series of violent attacks in April 2023.
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EIS, a former Westlake High School student, then admitted adolescents of personal frustration and the desire to commit massive violence, prosecutors said. Text messages and communications showed that it has had violent and extremist beliefs for years and mass murders admired, prosecutors said.
In February, Wesley’s parents saw how EIS, showing little or no emotion, He declared himself guilty At 10 serious crimes, including first degree murder, the attempt at premeditated murder, the assault with a mortal weapon and false imprisonment for violence.
Duration The two -day sentence hearing this month, Wesley’s mother, Kelly, addressed EIS directly, tells him that no nightmare is worse than knowing that his face is the last thing his son could have seen.
“You stole from my son and the world of a child who would have become an incredible man,” he said in court, according to a press release. “At 15, he was already or a man of what never.
Wesley Welling, a 15 -year -old first -year student at Westlake high school, was killed on April 18, 2023, when Austin Allen required a group of students with their car.
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The requirement is considered a youth offender and will be eligible for a probation hearing after 24 years, said prosecutor Amber Lee to Times.
Lee, a high -level deputy district prosecutor, said prosecutors decided to accept the supplication of saving the victims and their trauma families of testifying mortal assaults on the course of a long judgment.
“These families have suffered indescribable pain,” Lee said in a statement on Tuesday. “This prayer brings purpose without forcing them to revive their trauma in the trial.”
The violent uproar covered three locations, 30 miles and a couple of hours on the afternoon of April 18, 2023.
Pepper-Sprayed and stabbed a Walmart health in Simi Valley before assaulting a second employee and trying to drag it, prosecutors said. He forced the entrance to his family’s Camarillo house, where he threatened several people with a knife.
Hey led Thousand Oaks 20 minutes and hit his Toyota Camry in a group of students outside Westlake High School around 3:40 pm Wesley was killed and a 15-year-old girl, a 14-year-old girl and a 16-year-old office at the AAR-IN-IN-IN-OL-OL-OLD-OL-ROLD-ROLD-ROLD-ROOM Gighord-Injord-Injord-County Injurator.
The teenagers described shattered bodies, insomnia nights and lasting trauma at the EIS sentence hearing, according to the Ventura County District Prosecutor’s Office. Several of Wesley’s friends attended judicial hearings with “Justice for Wesley” t -shirts.
The Times staff writer Richard Winton contributed to this report.
