Nine days before the three-year anniversary of former student Alvaro Castillo firing at students at Orange High School, he was found guilty of the murder of his father and all charges relating to the shooting on the same day.
Castillo, 22, was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his father, Rafael Huezo Castillo, 65, on Aug. 30, 2006, by unanimous verdict last Friday after about one day of jury deliberation.
He was also convicted of nine charges related to Orange High School shooting, which took place just hours after he shot his father in the late morning hours. Those charges were two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, two counts of possession of weapons on educational property, discharge of a weapon on educational property, three charges of possession of weapons of mass death and destruction and discharging of weapon into occupied property.
Castillo will serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the murder, and will serve a combined 40 to 78 months on other charges, which were either consolidated or not judged upon by Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour.
Obviously, look for more recapping the trial and the final days of this month-long proceeding in next week's edition.
See what ended up on The News of Orange County's cutting room floor.
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