The 18-year-old accused of planning to murder classmates at Ontario Christian High School was also a danger to “several groups,” followed Hitler and had expressed a dislike for “minorities” and “LGBTQ” people, a prosecutor said Thursday, Feb. 15.
Sebastian Bailey Villaseñor was arraigned Thursday in Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga via video from West Valley Detention Center. Judge Arthur Benner II entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf to five counts of attempted murder and one count of attempted criminal threats.
Villaseñor is being represented by the San Bernardino County Public Defender’s Office.
Supervising Deputy District Attorney Joe Gaetano successfully argued that Villaseñor should continue to be held without bail. The criminal complaint says the victims of the attempted murders are four girls and one boy, and that the victim of the attempted threat is a girl.
In speaking to the judge Thursday, Gaetano identified possible additional targets that had not been disclosed during a news conference Wednesday at the Ontario Police Department.
“The defendant in this case poses a great danger to the community,” Gaetano told Benner. “The victims are all minors. They would be put in great danger. The danger would exist outside of school to several groups.”
Gaetano identified what he said were Villaseñor’s ideologies — an interest in Hitler and dislike of certain people — to a reporter after the hearing.
A hearing on Villaseñor’s bail was scheduled for Feb. 20.
No one could immediately be located to speak on Villaseñor’s behalf. Voice messages were left Wednesday and Thursday for people identified through a public records search as his parents. A business card was left at Villaseñor’s home on an Eastvale culdesac seeking comment.
On Feb. 8, another student — who authorities describe as brave and a hero — told school employees that he had heard about a plot to shoot students. Investigators learned that…
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