Second Santana Shooting Victim's Funeral

ByABC News
March 11, 2001, 6:02 AM

March 11 -- The second of two teenagers killed in the Santana High School shooting will be buried today.

Funeral servies for 14-year-old freshman Bryan Zuckor will be held in Lakeside, Calif., a town near Santee.

Zuckor was an aspiring bicycle stuntman. He was shot in the head and killed in the boys' bathroom.

On Saturday, hundreds of mourners gathered at Pathways Community Church in Santee, Calif., to remember 17-year-old Randy Gordon, who was shot in the back and killed during a mass shooting at Santana High School.

"He never tried to mess with anybody," said one of Gordon's best friends, Brad McGuiness. "He always tried to be a friend to everybody, no matter who you were."

Dreams of Joining the Navy

Pastor Phil Harrington, who conducted the service, memorialized the teen as bright and ambitious.

"Randy had signed with the U.S. Navy with a desire to serve in intelligence and dreamed of being an FBI agent," Harrington said. "He devoured books on the Navy and Tom Clancy novels."

Officials on the USS Arizona memorial, in Hawaii, planned to raise and lower a flag Saturday, to honor his intent to join the Navy.

At the service today, Harrington urged the community to come together become stronger, rather than harbor resentment.

"We don't have to let this act of violence define our community, and define us," he urged.

Gordon was very popular at school, said Chante' Thrasher, another close friend.

"Randy was really good," she said. "He always gave. He never took from anybody. He was a nice person. And all of us are going to miss him very much."

Prosecutors plan to charge 15-year-old Charles "Andy" Williams as adult under California's Proposition 21, which enables juveniles to be tried as adults for violent crimes.