GILROY
– City police investigated two stabbings this past weekend and
made an arrest for one of them.
GILROY – City police investigated two stabbings this past weekend and made an arrest for one of them.
No arrests were made in the more serious of the two situations, an armed robbery which police say shows signs of gang involvement. One of the three robbery victims, a 19-year-old male, was treated for a stab wound at a San Jose hospital; further information on his injury was unavailable.
At 9:20 p.m. Saturday, according to police, five people in a black Honda Civic blocked the three victims as they were attempting to leave the parking lot of El Charrito Market, 7638 Monterey Road. The robbers allegedly pointed a semi-automatic gun at the victims and demanded money and jewelry. When one of the victims resisted, police said, one of the robbers stabbed him once in the chest with a knife. Money and jewelry were taken from the victims.
In a separate incident Saturday night, city police arrested Eduardo Alvarez, 36, on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon after he reportedly cut another man with a knife in an argument over a pack of cigarettes.
The incident took place at 10:32 p.m. at the Mexico Cafe, 7275 Monterey Road. According to police, Alvarez attempted to take cigarettes from the pocket of a 30-year-old man. This man took the cigarettes back, at which point Alvarez stabbed him with the three-inch knife blade of what police described as a Leatherman-type multi-purpose tool.
The victim – who received only a small cut, police said – and many of the cafe’s patrons then chased Alvarez out of the building and were chasing him down Seventh Street when police saw the scene and arrested Alvarez.
