SAN JOSE — Eight people, including four teens, have been arrested in connection with suspected gang beatings in San Jose and Sunnyvale, police announced Thursday.
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The first assault linked to the group was reported around 9:15 p.m. April 4 in front of a 7-Eleven on Seven Trees Boulevard near East Capitol Expressway, according to San Jose police. Two men and three boys, ages 15, 16 and 17, allegedly attacked a man as a group, knocking him unconscious and inflicting what were described as life-threatening injuries.
The group fled before police arrived, and investigators deemed the attack to be gang related, police said.
An ensuing investigation connected the five suspects to a March assault in Sunnyvale, and linked the group to three more assailants, two men and a 16-year-old boy, police said. Additional details about the prior assault were not immediately available.
One of the teens was later connected to a February instance of brandishing a gun on The Woods Drive, near the site of the San Jose assault.
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Two of the adult suspects, ages 21 and 19, were arrested June 24 in San Jose by gang detectives, along with the 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old boys, all San Jose residents. Another adult suspect, an 18-year-old Sunnyvale resident, was arrested in Mountain View that same day.
On June 29, the last adult suspect, a 50-year-old San Jose man, was arrested in San Jose. Then on July 1, detectives traveled to Modoc County, in the far northeastern corner of the state, to arrest the last remaining suspect, a 17-year-old San Jose boy.
Police said search warrants served in the investigation found “gang indicia and evidence of the crime,” and the suspects were booked on suspicion of crimes including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and robbery.
In addition to San Jose police, agents and officers from the FBI, ATF, Santa Clara County Probation Department, and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation were involved in the pursuit and arrests of the suspects.
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