
Left inset: Austin Eis (Ventura County Sheriff’s Office). Right inset: Wesley Welling (GoFundMe). Background: The aftermath of Austin Eis’ violent crime spree in Ventura County, Cali. (KTLA/YouTube).
A California man with an “admiration for mass murderers” has confessed to going on an hourslong rampage in 2023 that ended with numerous people in the hospital and a 15-year-old dead after he mowed the teen down with his car, along with several others, “out of personal frustrations,” prosecutors say.
Austin Eis, 26, pleaded guilty last week to nearly a dozen felony charges connected to his Ventura County crime spree, which included stabbing and pepper-spraying a Walmart greeter and running over a group of students from his former high school — Westlake High School in West Lake Village — with his car, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.
Wesley Welling, the teen who died, was standing with the students on a sidewalk when Eis “intentionally drove into” them with his vehicle on April 18, 2023, in an attempt to cause a mass casualty event. Three others were hospitalized with “severe injuries requiring surgeries and extensive medical treatment,” the DA’s office said Friday.