SAN DIEGO – An 87-year-old Point Loma woman made a simple request of her son in court. She wanted him to turn around and face her.
William “Billy” Bushey, 61, shot June Bushey almost two years ago. She survived the attack, but her daughter and grandson did not.
Despite his mother’s urging, the defendant steadfastly stared straight ahead at his Wednesday sentencing and did not turn to face her. June Bushey spoke from the courtroom audience before her son was sentenced to consecutive life terms for his crimes.
“You can’t even face us, can you?” she asked him, while surrounded by other family members in San Diego Superior Court .
“What you have done is very selfish,” she continued angrily. “You have a lot to make up (for), but I don’t think you will.”
Her son was convicted by a jury on Jan. 23 of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of his sister, Laurie Robinson, 61, and her son, Brett Robinson, 33.
He also faced an attempted murder charge for shooting his mother in their Zola Street home – she lost three fingers on her right hand to the shotgun blast – on Aug. 21, 2024.
The spark that set off the rampage was a temporary disconnection of the internet in William Bushey’s room, because his sister wanted to relocate the home’s Wi-Fi router. He began shouting, “Where’s the internet?” angrily. He claimed his sister disconnected it as part of a plot for him to be evicted and become homeless.
“Send Mr. Bushey to prison for the rest of his life,” Deputy District Attorney Scott Pirrello urged the court.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Joan Weber complied. Billy Bushy’s two life terms will be served without the possibility of parole, plus a third life term for wounding his mother. She ordered another consecutive term of 75 years to life for Bushey for using a gun in the crimes, a measure recommended by Pirrello.
His attorney, Denis Lainez, urged the judge to have mercy and to impose only one life term and not run the other life sentences consecutively. Weber declined.
She also ruled that the $20,376 in cash that was found in William Bushey’s room be turned over to his mother and ordered him to pay $12,818 to a state fund that covered the Robinsons’ funerals. She added a $510 fine.
Kyle Robinson, Brett’s twin brother, added his voice to his grandmother’s in court.
“My mom was not your enemy,” he told his uncle. “My grandmother was not your enemy. She gave you life.”
“All of this was very avoidable. We would not let you become homeless,” he continued. “We could have empathized with you.”
Kyle Robinson’s wife Mary, joined him in court. She called him her “soul mate” and said he became depressed after the shootings. She found him holding a gun to his head in the woods.
“You murdered his twin brother and mother. Let that sink in,” said Mary Robinson to Bushey. “It’s a life-long wound, Billy. This family is shattered because of you.”
“I do not hate you, Billy,” said Ryan Robinson, another brother to Brett, who held a Bible while in court. “I hope you can do something with your life … Billy, I forgive you.”
Weber acknowledged the family’s statements, saying “They were extraordinary, all of you.” She quoted the probation report in which officials said Billy Bushey “disregarded the sanctity of life of his own family.”
After citing the report, she said, “These two people lost their lives for no reason at all.”
Weber gave Bushey credit for serving 553 days in jail, but the point is moot since he received sentences of a life without the possibility of parole.
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