Overview

• An amended federal complaint charges Hernandez Santana with possessing and discharging a firearm in a school zone and interfering with a licensed communications station.
• Court documents say he fired one shot near 2555 3rd Street within a school zone and then three shots into KXTV/ABC10’s lobby, where an employee was present but unharmed.
• Investigators linked a suspect vehicle via surveillance and DMV records and report recovering a 9 mm casing, a projectile, gunshot residue on his hands, and a satchel with a handgun.
• Searches also turned up a planner entry reading “Do the Next Scary Thing” and a car note referencing Epstein and naming Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi with the phrase “They’re next,” which prosecutors highlighted in detention filings.
• He was first arrested by Sacramento police and released on bail before the FBI took him into federal custody; he faces separate state gun charges that prosecutors say could add up to 17 years, while the federal counts carry maximum penalties of up to five years for the school-zone offenses and one year for interference.