Prosecutors won’t seek death for engineer charged with shooting 3 at Santa Clara firm
By APFriday, July 31, 2009
Prosecutors won’t seek death in office killings
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty in the case of a Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three people at a Santa Clara high-tech firm.
Jing Hua Wu would have been eligible for the death penalty if convicted of the first-degree murder charges and the special circumstances filed against him after he allegedly gunned down three executives of SiPort Inc. in November of 2008.
But Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr announced Thursday that her office determined that life in prison without parole would be an appropriate sentence for Wu, if he’s convicted.
Prosecutors say Wu shot the three executives after he was fired from the company.
Wu has not yet entered a plea in the case.
