As Esteban Nuñez nears release from prison,victim's family remains outraged.
The slain student’s mother did the math a long time ago, so the news she recently received — that convicted killer Esteban Nuñez would soon go free after less than six years in prison — came as no real surprise.
That makes it no easier, Kathy Santos said, to know that a high-level political favor is sending him home at age 27, as her son lies in a grave.
“It makes you sick that something like this can happen, and you have no power,” said Santos, whose 22-year-old son, Luis, a San Diego Mesa College student, was killed by a knife to the heart.
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez in 2007. As his term was ending, Schwarzenegger commuted the sentence of Nuñez's son, Esteban, who was serving a 16–year sentence for his role in the fatal stabbing of a San Diego college.📷