Funeral held for California school shooting victim

From staff and wire reports

SANTEE, California -- Parents and students came together Saturday to mourn and support each other during the first of two funerals for students killed in a shooting spree at a high school in Santee, California.

About 700 people attended the service for 17-year-old Randy Gordon -- killed Monday at Santana High School.

Thirteen other people -- 11 students and two adults -- were wounded in the shooting.

The funeral was held at a church near the 1,900-student suburban high school. Mourner Cathy Bateman said she baby-sat Gordon about eight years ago.

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"It doesn't make any sense," Bateman said. "I'm angry. I don't know what stage comes next, but I haven't gotten there yet." She said everyone who knew Gordon was proud of him. She said he had planned to enter the Navy and had hoped to eventually become an FBI agent.

The funeral for the second victim, 14-year-old Bryan Zuckor, is scheduled for Sunday.

Accused in the shootings is 15-year-old Charles Andrew Williams, a ninth-grader who allegedly fired more than 30 shots in the school Monday with a .22-caliber long-barreled revolver. He is being held on charges of murder, attempted murder and other charges, and San Diego County prosecutors plan to try him as an adult.

The Williams family issued a statement Friday expressing horror at the shooting and "deepest sympathy" to the family and friends of the dead and wounded.

In a related development, a Frederick County, Maryland, teen-ager remained in jail Saturday, charged with making terrorist threats via the Internet to students at Santana High School and Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the site of a 1999 student rampage that left 15 people dead.

Patrick Andrew Smith, 18, of Walkersville, Maryland, was denied bond on a fugitive warrant from San Diego County, California, officials and was expected to make his first court appearance in the case on Monday morning.

A Santana High School student received a threat warning of plans to "complete" Monday's attack, police said. School security was heightened Friday because of the alleged threat.

On Friday evening thousands of people attended a memorial service at the same church as Saturday's funeral in honor of the slain boys. Some students and their family members wore ribbons with the school colors -- purple and gold -- in the victims' memories.

California Gov. Gray Davis and his wife Sharon took part in the service. The state's first lady is a 1972 graduate of Santana High School.

"The young boys were taken from us in an act of unspeakable evil," Davis said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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