New state felony charge for Sacramento man in September ABC10 shooting
Sacramento County prosecutors filed a new felony gun charge against the man accused of firing into the lobby of a television station in September.
Anibal Hernandez Santana is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 20 in Sacramento Superior Court on a felony charge of shooting into an unoccupied building, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Prosecutors filed the charge Oct. 31 in Sacramento Superior Court.
It remains unclear whether the charge is connected to the Sept. 19 shooting into KXTV’s Broadway building. Santana, 64, was previously charged on suspicion of firing into an inhabited building and assault with a semi-automatic firearm. He faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted of the state charges stemming from the ABC10 shooting.
Santana pleaded not guilty in Sacramento federal court in the September shooting after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges including firing a 9mm handgun within a school zone, possessing a firearm within a school zone and willfully or maliciously interfering with or causing interference to the signals of a television station.
A status conference set for Monday in Sacramento federal court was postponed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Elliot Wong has said in court that Hernandez Santana stood in a nearby school zone and fired a gunshot into the air shortly before driving around the block to fire three gunshots into the lobby of the ABC10 building.
The station is near Leataata Floyd Elementary School and Health Professions High School.
The Bee’s Rosalio Ahumada contributed to this story.
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