Visitacion Valley park<\/a> on Jan. 9, 2019. She died a year later from her injuries.<\/p>\nOutside the courtroom, her grandson Jeremy Lu said the sentencing could not ease the family\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n
‘This will last forever’<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
“It cannot bring back our grandma, and this will last forever. However, her love still remains,” he said.<\/p>\n
A jury earlier this month found Gathron guilty of 25 crimes involving multiple victims, most of them Asian. The charges included carjackings, robberies, beatings, and the attack on Huang.<\/p>\n
Defendant speaks but offers no apology<\/p>\n
The other side<\/p>\n
Gathron, who represented himself, addressed the court but did not apologize or admit guilt.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve suffered a lot myself. I could relate to the pain, loss, suffering,” he said. “I’ve experienced that my entire life, so I understand, and I understand they feel and think I’m responsible, so I don’t have any ill feelings.”<\/p>\n
Huang\u2019s family said they were disappointed he did not take responsibility.<\/p>\n
“I did not hear him say what I want to hear him say, which is take accountability, and so that\u2019s upsetting,” granddaughter Sasanna Yee said.<\/p>\n
Added Lu, “I feel a little bit of sadness and anger that until this day, he still does not admit what he did and did not apologize.”<\/p>\n
Law expert John Trasvina, who was in court, said it was surprising Gathron chose to represent himself.<\/p>\n
“I did not see the jury buying his arguments,” he said. “They were ranging from AI creating evidence against him to other matters that didn\u2019t appear, and as a result the jury did not accept those arguments.”<\/p>\n
A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 4 to formally finalize Gathron\u2019s sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Keonte Gathron was sentenced to 31 years plus two life terms for the 2019 beating of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[42843,27366,101,103,102,104,106,105,41722],"class_list":["post-73111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-grandma-huang","tag-keonte-gathron","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-yik-oi-huang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}