What will happen to Max Wade now? Yesterday -- almost two years after his arrest for trying to kill a former classmate from Marin County's Redwood High in a brazen and bizarre drive-by-shooting in staid Mill Valley -- a Marin County judge sentenced the 19-year old to a life term in prison.
Wade was found guilty in October for the shoot-up, and for driving away in celebrity chef Guy Fieri's Lamborghini (though not for the Hollywood-worthy heist of the $200,000 car in 2011, when Max Wade was 16).
Judge Kelly Simmons went for the maximum because, she said, Wade -- whose plans, more than half-formed, for a jewelry heist in Union Square were revealed on his sentencing day and used to put him away -- is "scary." The detectives who spent months busting him concurred. "I wouldn't want my mom or girlfriend to be walking down the same street as Max Wade," one said, according to his old school's student newspaper.
He will be eligible for parole in his mid-to-late 30s; his attorney expects him to serve no less than 15. Until then, it's San Quentin or Folsom. So what's the takeaway, the lesson?
There probably won't be one.
Plenty has been written about Wade (we're guilty of that), and there's plenty more out there that hasn't been released or revealed. A little bit of it came out yesterday -- like the revelation that he'd planned a takeover-style robbery of a that jewelry store, complete with a rooftop getaway in a helicopter (apparently, he'd already identified the chopper to use).
@sucka_freeB he tried to kill my friends cousin.. over some bitch...
— D-Fresh (@EASTBAYDFRESH) January 24, 2014@keiannagrotjahn who's max wade nd why is everyone tweeting about him
— Ashley (@ashtaylor_pike) January 24, 2014Today I'm gonna do it for Max Wade. Bless that young mastermind.
— #SFC SEAN G (@DeeJaySeanG) January 24, 2014
