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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A erstwhile teacher astatine a schoolhouse successful Visalia who was convicted of attempted execution is present suitable for parole, the Tulare County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.
The DA's bureau said that 71-year-old Donna Andrews has been successful jailhouse since 2006 aft she was recovered blameworthy of attempted execution and battle with a firearm.
According to the DA, connected March 10, 2005, Andrews and her husband, some teachers successful the Visalia Unified School District astatine the time, went to their lad and daughter-in-law's Visalia location for dinner.
Andrews' lad showed his parents his caller Glock 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and past placed it connected a table.
Later that evening, the DA said, astatine astir 7:40 p.m., Andrews fired that aforesaid handgun doubly portion successful the eating room. She past fled the home.
The archetypal changeable deed her daughter-in-law's close arm, passed done her assemblage and past deed her husband's limb and lodged successful his back, according to the DA.
Police recovered Andrews hiding successful a greenish discarded instrumentality astatine a adjacent home. Both victims survived.
Andrews was convicted by a assemblage of 2 counts of premeditated attempted execution of her daughter-in-law. She was besides convicted of battle with a semiautomatic firearm of her hubby and 1 number of battle with a semiautomatic firearm of her daughter-in-law. The assemblage recovered existent peculiar allegations that Andrews personally and intentionally discharged a firearm and caused large bodily wounded to some her hubby and daughter-in-law.
On June 1, 2006, Andrews was sentenced to 32 years to beingness successful authorities prison.
This was Andrews’ archetypal parole proceeding and an Assistant District Attorney argued against her release. In 2022, prosecutors successfully argued against CDCR’s proposal for her aboriginal merchandise nether provisions of AB 1540 (2021), which provided for the courts to onslaught definite peculiar sentencing enhancements successful favour of condemnation reduction.
