The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has declined to file charges against the mother of the Saugus High School student who opened fire on classmates before shooting and killing himself on Nov. 14, 2019. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department had presented two charges against Mami Matsuura-Berhow, mother of 16-year-old Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, the Signal reported Thursday. “We presented a case on Nathaniel Berhow’s mother to the district attorney’s office and they declined to file charges on her for [contributing to] the delinquency of a minor and criminal storage of a firearm,” Sgt. “That was pretty much it.”AdvertisementA spokesperson for the district attorney’s office told the Signal that there wasn’t enough evidence to pursue the case and it was rejected on Oct. 23. After the shootings, which resulted in the deaths of 15-year-old Gracie Anne Muehlberger, 14-year-old Dominic Blackwell and Berhow, investigators were quick to focus on how Berhow obtained the .45-caliber handgun he used to carry out the attack.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 13, 2020 04:07 UTC