Son of former Probation Department employee to stand trial in East County murder

FILE A San Diego Sheriff s cruiser Chris Stone The son of a former San Diego County probation department employee was ordered Monday to stand trial on murder and attempted murder charges for an East County shooting while his co-defendant pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Hunter Randall White is charged in the Nov shooting of -year-old Javier Medina in an unincorporated area near El Cajon Sheriff s deputies exposed Medina wounded in the block of East Bradley Avenue just before p m that night He was taken to a hospital where he died two days later White is also charged with attempted murder for allegedly firing at a second man during the same shooting that took Medina s life White s mother Carla White who had worked for the county probation department for nearly two decades was sentenced last month to one year in jail for helping her son evade capture while law enforcement sought him for Medina s killing Prosecutors mentioned she drove her son from the scene of the shooting and later provided him with a confidential be-on-the-lookout flyer which indicated law enforcement were looking for him A picture of that flyer was revealed on Hunter White s phone after investigators searched the device according to testimony from a preliminary hearing held to determine whether he would go to trial on the murder and attempted murder counts That same phone search proved he called his mother numerous times shortly just after the time of the shooting and also messaged her Hurry and sent her the address of his location Prior to the preliminary hearing White s co-defendant Kristian Wolf pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Wolf is expected to receive a -year state prison sentence later this year According to preliminary hearing testimony just before the shooting on the night of Nov White and Wolf were spotted on surveillance footage walking around an apartment complex near where the shooting took place Neither defendant were residents of that complex Social media and cell phone evidence taken from the victim and defendants phones indicated they were aware of each other and that there was ongoing animosity Viewers recounted investigators that the men walked up to Medina and issued a gang challenge just before he was shot No weapons were identified on Medina or at the shooting scene After White s arrest he was placed in a holding cell with a confidential informant but declined to discuss the shooting according to testimony Investigators then described him that they had detected his DNA on shell casings from the shooting scene but this was false sheriff s Det Sean Mula testified After White was given this false information he admitted to the informant that he shot Medina according to Mula White remains in custody without bail