(KRON) — A number of youngsters are dealing with costs after allegedly firing a gun in broad daylight whereas chasing down two different teenagers in Livermore final week, the Livermore Police Division introduced Thursday.
A gaggle of 4 youngsters, ages 15 to 17, had been in an Infiniti automobile on Jan. 28 round 3 p.m. once they “exchanged words” with a 15-year-old and 16-year-old, authorities mentioned. The change, which occurred close to Chestnut and North I streets, escalated when the 4 teenagers allegedly bought out of the Infinity and began to chase the victims over a fence.
Whereas the group was operating after the 2 victims, one of many suspects threw a hatchet at them, Livermore PD mentioned. Throughout a confrontation, a shot was fired, and the suspects fled the world within the automobile.
Teenagers chased victims with hatchet, gun in Livermore: police
Nobody was injured within the capturing, police mentioned.
Livermore police investigators recognized 4 juvenile suspects after taking witness statements and reviewing neighborhood surveillance video.
The Infiniti automobile, which had no license plate throughout the capturing incident, was situated later within the night by an off-duty officer in Livermore. It was adopted into Tracy because the officer notified on-duty authorities.
A responding Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace helicopter tracked the automobile because it drove to Stockton. There, San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Workplace deputies tried a site visitors cease. The suspects fled, police mentioned, and reached speeds as much as 140 mph on Interstate 5.
Deputies disabled the automobile with spike strips on Interstate 205, west of Tracy. Three of the 4 youngsters discovered contained in the automobile had been suspects within the Livermore capturing and had been arrested with out incident, in line with LPD. Police mentioned the teenager not related to the capturing will face costs for being inside a stolen automobile.
The fourth suspect within the Livermore capturing investigation was situated and arrested throughout a separate disturbing the peace name, police officers mentioned.
The 4 capturing suspects had been booked into Alameda County Juvenile Corridor and face costs together with willful discharge of a firearm in a grossly negligent method, assault with a lethal weapon and possession of a stolen automobile.
Three of the arrested teenagers are from Livermore, and the opposite two are from Pleasanton and Stockton. Authorities imagine the capturing incident was gang-related.
The group could face further costs in San Joaquin County, Livermore PD mentioned.
