Staff Report
GILROY
– Police have released the photo of a second suspect identified
in the last week’s shooting of a Gilroy man who was left for dead
on Hecker Pass Highway.
Staff Report
GILROY – Police have released the photo of a second suspect identified in the last week’s shooting of a Gilroy man who was left for dead on Hecker Pass Highway.
Police are now searching the Gilroy area for Silvester Herrera, 21, along with his 23-year-old brother David “Orozco” Herrera. Both men are from Gilroy and are expected to be armed and dangerous.
Silvester Herrera with the alias “Beche” is described as a 5-foot-9-inch, 170-pound Latino man with brown eyes and black hair.
Detectives with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department have been searching Gilroy since Jan. 16 for David Herrera, who allegedly shot an “associate” three times at close range on Hecker Pass Highway near Pole Line Road around 1 a.m. Jan. 14 and tossed him over an embankment, leaving him for dead.
Investigators declined to release the victim’s name, but did say he is from Gilroy.
Thought to be the triggerman in the shooting, David Herrera is des-cribed as a 5-foot-5-inch, 170-pound Latino man with brown eyes and black hair.
Police are asking anyone with information about Herrera’s whereabouts or the shooting to call Sheriff’s Detectives Dean Baker or Dave Gordon at 299-2211, or the Gilroy Police Department at 846-0350.
