A black security guard who won parole nearly four decades after murdering two white teens in a racist shooting today saw that decision reversed by California parole commissioners, months after Governor Gavin Newsom ordered them to look again at their ruling.
Sebron Flenaugh opened fire on staff he was hired to protect at the MicroPure office in Concord in June 1988. He gunned down 17-year-old Jennifer Hollis and 19-year-old Jim Disney, and grievously wounded four others, stopping only because he ran out of bullets.
The Oaklander claimed he felt “disrespected” at work.
After a bench trial Flenaugh was found guilty and sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for two counts of second degree murder plus 23 years for four counts of attempted murder, to run consecutively.
He won parole on August 21 2025.
This morning, before a specially convened ‘rescission’ panel, survivors and loved ones of the deceased demanded the parole grant be reversed.
“If he’s on the street what’s to keep him from doing it again?” asked Jennifer Hollis’ father Ron Hollis. “He is a violent criminal and he is a mentally ill person and it has been proven over and over again. There’s no reason why, if he’s on the streets, that he can’t get a gun and pull the trigger again.”
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent, and there have been a lot of innocent people inflicted with severe trauma by this man and he should never be released.”
“Keep this mass murderer in jail for the rest of his life,” he concluded.
Jennifer’s aunt, Nancy Gaines, took the parole board to task for its earlier decision to parole Flenaugh – complaining that commisioners, in effect, coached the inmate as he testified and failed to probe his belated admission that the crime was driven by his animus toward whites.
“The board failed to address racially motivated conduct,” Gaines said. “The inmate admitted that the offense was motivated by racist revenge against white people.”
“The panel accepted the inmate’s admission of racially motivated revenge without follow up,” she said.
Attack survivor Jane Gregg, who was shot in the spine, told commissioners that she had struggled to move on from the incident. Flenaugh smiled at her before beginning his assault, she said,
“I went inside, sat down and began looking at my horoscope,” she recalled. “and the next thing I hear is the piercing sound of the gunfire. I thought it was fake. He shot Robert and Gary on his way in and then he came in and shot the rest of us.”
“We have a life sentence and he should have a life sentence as well,” she added.
Commissioner David Ndudim, Commissioner David Long and Deputy Commissioner Eleanor Adams deliberated for 20 minutes before announcing the grant of parole was reversed.
“Ultimately this panel has made a determination that rescission is appropriate,” said Ndudim, as “the granting panel’s decision is inconsistent with the evidence in the record…and there was inadequate discussion by the panel of strategies for Mr Flenaugh to cope with his mental health issues”
“All of this creates a direct nexus to current dangerousness because it demonstrates that you remain susceptible to the race issues that led you to commit your life crime,” he concluded.
Flenaugh, 83, had been granted parole on August 21 2025. At that hearing, he admitted for the first time that he shot his victims because they were white and he had wanted to kill whites.
Governor Gavin Newsom declined to reverse the decision outright but did tell the parole board to reexamine the case which ultimately resulted in today’s hearing being scheduled.
Flenaugh remains incarcerated in Corcoran State Prison.
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