Family members of a man and woman arrested in connection with an
attempted murder case claim the real victims are the
defendants.
Family members of a man and woman arrested in connection with an attempted murder case claim the real victims are the defendants.
Police arrested Isaac Carrillo, 20, and Leticia Chaigres, 46, for allegedly beating and stabbing four young males outside Chaigres’ home in north Gilroy last February in what police have called a gang fight.
What really happened, family members said, was a late-night gathering of about six close friends at the house near Westwood Drive and Driftwood Terrace. One female guest invited four males from Hollister without telling anyone, and the posse showed up drunk about 3 a.m. Feb. 21 and then started a fight after Chaigres, who had been sleeping, asked them to leave, according to Chaigres’ daughters, Adrienne Rendon and Cesily Carrillo. Isaac Carrillo, Cesily Carrillo’s cousin, was also inside sleeping at the time, they said.
“They woke up to this big fight, and now this whole thing has turned into a mess,” Cesily Carrillo said. “It was a crazy night, but there’s no way a 46-year-old woman would invite 20-somethings to a house party where she was sleeping.”
Police, however, claim Chaigres and other unknown females lured the four victims – whom Rendon and Carrillo identified by name as childhood acquaintances of Isaac Carrillo – to Chaigres’ home. Once there, Isaac Carrillo and an unknown number of additional male suspects surprised the Hollister men, yelling gang-related phrases while attacking them with “stabbing instruments,” said Sgt. Jim Gillio, who did not immediately return messages Thursday. Chaigres’ daughters, who were not at the house that night, countered that the four men, who are white, provoked the fight and yelled racial epithets at the guests who were already there.
After the fight, the Hollister men drove themselves to Hazel Hawkins Hospital to receive treatment for “severe” injuries, police said. An employee there called police after noticing the “suspicious wounds,” which included a cut throat on one of the victims who was stabbed, Gillio said. Chaigres’ boyfriend also sustained a cut to his arm. It was unclear who and how many people used weapons during the confusing fight.
Neither witnesses nor victims immediately reported the crime, but police tracked Carrillo down to an apartment near Mantelli Drive and Kern Avenue Monday, where they arrested him for attempted murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and two additional unspecified warrants issued by outside agencies, Gillio said. According to the police blotter Carrillo was arrested for attempted murder, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and a warrant for causing more than $50,000 in damages through vandalism. Officers arrested Chaigres June 3 along Pacheco Pass Highway on warrants for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and fraud. It was not clear whether the fraud count was from a separate incident.
Carrillo was also arrested in October 2008 for conspiracy to commit a crime and vandalism, according to Dispatch archives. Both Chaigres and Carrillo were listed on the Dispatch’s Most Wanted this spring. Police are still searching for “a bunch of suspects” present during the attack, Gillio said.
Anyone with information regarding this case can contact police at 846-0350. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call 846-0330.
