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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The formerly expelled Monache High School student, accused of entering the schoolhouse connected Monday and attacking a 15-year-old girl, entered a not-guilty plea to his charges, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office announced.
The DA's bureau said 19-year-old Noah Serrate, a erstwhile Monache High School student, entered a second-floor schoolroom equipped with a weapon and attacked a pupil earlier fleeing. The unfortunate and Serrate did not cognize each different astatine the clip of the attack.
Serrate was charged with willful, deliberate, and premeditated attempted murder, felony aggravated mayhem, and misdemeanor disobeying a tribunal order.
The DA adds that the felony charges are enhanced with peculiar allegations that helium utilized a deadly weapon, that helium caused large bodily injury, that helium was equipped with a weapon, that the transgression took planning, and that it was violent.
The DA's bureau besides says the charges are enhanced with the peculiar allegation that the transgression was committed portion Serrate was retired connected bail owed to a erstwhile filed felony case, which accused him of making convulsive threats toward Monache students and unit successful April 2024.
Because of that case, an progressive transgression protective bid was implemented, and according to the DA, helium was prohibited from being successful the school's vicinity.
If convicted, Serrate faces beingness successful prison. At Wednesday's arraignment, the DA's bureau reports helium entered a not-guilty plea and volition instrumentality to tribunal connected May 29. He is being held successful custody with nary bail.
