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.Chief Ronald Davis with the East Palo Alto Police Dept. says, "He made a statement that implicated him that placed him there but I am not going to say weather he confessed because it is still a very open investigation." Police are holding a second 16-year-old suspect on a weapons charge and think he may have also been involved in the shooting. They say the tragedy appears to be a case of mistaken identity. The 17-year-old accused of the murder thought he had spotted gang members who had assaulted him in redwood city last month. Captain Jeff Liu says, "Believing that the two individuals that had beat him up in redwood city were in that car, fired in that car as it was leaving the scene." Ivonne says she was hit in the leg trying to shield both of her children from the hail of gunfire. Her family is thanking the community for coming forward with information that lead to an arrest. The victim's aunt Angie Garcia says, "By breaking the silence, I just want to thank the community so much and our police department so much for doing their job." [7] ''The three-month old was hit and died later at the hospital. The suspect is in Juvenile Hall based upon his age. Police stated at the television conference that they had cooperation from the community and they thanked the community today publicly on television. Police believe the family were the deliberate targets, though they did not find out the motive until later. It appeared one of the boys had been beaten up by a gang on May 31 and on seeing the couple with their children thought that the couple were responsible for that beating. It was a case of mistaken identity. "It's pretty apparent, based upon the way the crime occurred and the evidence left behind, that the vehicle this family was traveling in was the target of the shooting," stated East Palo Alto Police Captain Jeff Liu to KTVU Channel 2 News in San Francisco.Izak, though, had been shot in the head. "He was such a precious angel," Garcia-Lopez, 28, said at the news conference, sobbing. "He is my everything.
I was making my own little family and we were happy, and this person came into my life and destroyed it. They killed my baby and they killed part of my soul, too." Garcia-Lopez's husband, 22-year-old Oscar Jimenez, was shot in the shoulder as he sat in the driver's seat. He is still hospitalized, but is expected to recover. His 4-year-old son was not hurt. Police withheld the suspect's name because he is a juvenile. Liu said officers arrested him Sunday, after receiving tips from the community, at a house where he lives on the 400 block of Larkspur Drive in East Palo Alto - about a block from where the shootings happened. A second boy, who is 16, was arrested at the house at the same time. Both were booked on suspicion of weapons violations, Liu said. [5] In a television conference yesterday on KTVU Channel 2 News, Capt. Jeff Liu said the police received tips from the community and were able to arrest the juvenile (who cannot be identified because of his age). He was arrested in Larkspur Drive, East Palo Alto, a block from the shooting incident location. Another boy, age 16 was booked on weapons' violations and 3 weapons were found in the house. One is believed to be the one that killed the 3-month old infant, according to Liu. The 17-year-old was booked on suspicion of murder when he "provided statements implicating himself," Liu said.'' Although the 16-year-old has not been booked in relation to the shooting, "we feel he was involved in it," stated Liu. "They should be in school learning," Garcia Lopez said of the boys who took her baby's life.
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The shooting has traumatized the family, and the 4-year-old is suffering flashbacks, Garcia-Lopez said. According to police, the 17-year-old suspect was seeking vengeance on Sureno members who had beaten him up in Redwood City on May 31. The night of the shooting, he thought he saw two of the gang members on Wisteria Drive, near the home where the baby shower was taking place, police said. They thought the two Surenos were in the car. '''But they were not,''' Liu said. Garcia-Lopez said she and her husband did not know the teenage suspects involved in the shooting. '''They destroyed my family!''' Garcia-Lopez said.Investigators plan to release details of the arrest at a noon news conference at the Police Department's criminal investigation substation. The infant suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head when two men opened fire on the car he was in with his parents on Wisteria Drive just before 1 a.m., police said. He was taken to Stanford Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. The mother and father, both 22 years old, were wounded in the shooting but are expected to survive. A $25,000 reward was issued for information leading to the arrest of the two suspects, described as Hispanic men in their early 20s between 5 feet 9 and 5 feet 10 inches tall. [14] We will provide you with more information as we learn more. The baby boy was fatally shot in the head while sitting in a car with his parents on Wisteria Drive around 1 a.m. on Sunday. He was taken to Stanford Hospital where he was pronounced dead at about 2:15 a.m. Both mom and dad were wounded in the shooting, as well as their three-year-old son, but all expected to survive, police say.
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Police say the men shot into a vehicle with the family in it around 12:50am on Wisteria Drive in East Palo Alto.East Palo Alto, Calif.- Police are searching for two men who opened fire on family of four, killing a three-month-old infant. [25] East Palo Alto Mayor Carlos Romero attended a vigil held for the family near the scene of the hosting along with approximately 50 others on Sunday. Romero promised to work vigilantly to find those responsible for the infant's death. "We will be steadfast in tracking them down and making sure that they receive their just desserts," Romero said. "It was the one thing that I promised the mother who is tragically still in the hospital." One suspect is described as being Hispanic, in his mid-teens or early twenty's, around 5 feet 9 inches tall and approximately 140 pounds. [24] The police released sketches of the two teens Sunday; the 17-year-old is the one wearing a ski cap. East Palo Alto Mayor Carlos Romero said the community was shocked by the crime, which he called "heinous." "Yesterday when I visited the victim in the hospital, I promised her that we would spare no resources to bring to justice those perpetrators. [1] The two teens were picked up Sunday after a manhunt that had police going door to door in East Palo Alto interviewing known gang members and parolees. [9] The team rapidly formed a 12-member task force, which included four loaned members of the Palo Alto Police Department, to seek out gang members, parolees and persons on probation, once police learned the shooting might be gang related, said Sgt. Roderick Norris, who heads the violence-interdiction team."What we understand is that on May 31 in Redwood City there was an altercation between the Sureno street gang and the individual we have arrested," East Palo Alto Police Capt.East Palo Alto's acting police Captain Jeff Liu told reporters that the Sunday morning incident was a supposed retaliation for a beating the arrested 17-year-old received during a gang fight last week.
A special team was formed to investigate the case, and its members began to focus on all known gang members in the area where the shooting happened. At about 1 p.m. Sunday, police went to a home on Larkspur Drive, the next street over from Wisteria Drive, where they recovered three handguns and took two teens, ages 16 and 17, into custody on weapons charges, Liu said. Lui said that while they were questioning the teens, one made statements implicating himself in the shooting and was arrested in connection with that case. [22] The couple'''s 4-year-old child who was also in the car at the time was not injured. Police announced an arrest in the case Monday ''' a 17-year-old ''' and that they also had a 16-year-old in custody. The shooting suspect reportedly told police that the event was in retaliation for a gang fight two weeks earlier during which he was beat up by Sure''o gang members
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