GILROY
– City police arrested two men who they said wielded a steak
knife and a crowbar and chased a man on East Eighth Street
Wednesday night.
No one was injured in the incident.
GILROY – City police arrested two men who they said wielded a steak knife and a crowbar and chased a man on East Eighth Street Wednesday night.
No one was injured in the incident.
Pedro Salinas, 19, and Jose Hernandez, 18, were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest. Officers caught them near the corner of Tenth and Chestnut streets.
According to police, the incident began when Salinas got into a verbal argument with 37-year-old Joel Gray. Hernandez, of 10905 Murphy Ave. in San Martin, and Salinas then advanced upon Gray, Salinas with a steak knife and Hernandez with a crowbar. They chased Gray back to his home at 500 E. Eighth St. and then fled.
Police noted that Salinas and Hernandez each have three dots tattooed onto one hand, a typical sign of Sureño gang members, Sgt. Kurt Svardal said. Nevertheless, Svardal said this incident does not appear to be gang-related.
Salinas’ home apartment complex at 8323 Forest St. was the scene of a shooting Aug. 1, in which a man reportedly drove up, asked three men a question in English and opened fire when they answered that they only spoke Spanish. Police have said the man they arrested for the shooting, Leon Martinez of Salinas, may belong to a Norteño gang. Norteños are U.S.-born Hispanics, while their rival Sureños are Mexican nationals.
