Miramonte teen killer to spend six years in custody as teacher says, 'I really like the kid'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- After a gruesome country successful the mountains 2 years ago, the Miramonte teen who admitted to sidesplitting his parents and injuring his sister learned helium volition walk six years successful custody.

The boy, present 16, wore a purple garment and sat adjacent to his nationalist defender successful court. He did not look back, and helium ne'er said a connection passim the hearing.

"What's astonishing is however egregious this is," Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi said. "Killing his parent and begetter and past trying to termination his sister."

The boy, whom we cannot name, utilized a weapon and a weapon to termination his parents, Lue Yang and Se Vang. He past turned to his younger sister, stabbing the 11-year-old and causing "major injuries."

Radio postulation reveals the chaos arsenic the teen claimed idiosyncratic other was to blame.

"[Reporting party] screaming connected the line, saying idiosyncratic broke into his location with a gun. Can perceive children crying. [Reporting party] frantic. Not answering questions," dispatchers said.

Detectives discovered it was a "fabricated story," and rapidly turned their attraction to the caller.

On Wednesday, prosecutors highlighted successful tribunal however the lad thwarted investigators and stood by his communicative during interviews.

"In the past, the prosecutors couldn't adjacent uncover that information, but with the caller laws now, they tin explicate what happened successful this case, and acceptable retired the facts," Capozzi said.

A motive was ne'er revealed.

State instrumentality prevented prosecutors from moving it to big court, wherever a double-murder condemnation could bring a beingness situation sentence.

In this case, confinement was constricted to 7 years. The justice gave the lad six.

"In this peculiar case, helium becomes a ward of the tribunal for the adjacent play of clip successful the system, which is solely for rehabilitation," Capozzi said. "That's it."

By 22, the young slayer volition locomotion free.

With his afloat sanction ne'er released and galore details of the transgression ne'er revealed, the nationalist volition not cognize what helium looks similar oregon what helium did.

"It's not a transgression case. There won't beryllium a grounds of it," Capozzi said. "How does that support the public? That's going to beryllium a interest erstwhile he's released."

During the hearing, 1 of the boy's teachers spoke successful enactment of him.

He said the lad is simply a straight-'A' student, who is agleam and respectful, and told the judge, "I truly similar the kid."

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