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Three suspected gang members, including one from Pleasanton, have been charged in the shooting death of a 5-year-old girl along an East Bay freeway on April 8, according to authorities.
Humberto Anaya, 29, of Fremont, Kristo Ayala Valderrama, 25, of Pleasanton, and Emmanuel Sarango, 27, of Fremont were arrested in Santa Cruz hours after the shooting took place along Interstate 880 in Fremont.
Eliyanah Crisostomo was shot in the heart as she was riding in a vehicle with her family to a family dinner.
“There is no reason young children should die on our Bay Area freeways,” Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said in a statement Friday. “This behavior is absolutely unacceptable. We will not stand for gun violence and these three defendants will be held accountable for their despicable actions.”
Prosecutors allege that Anaya, Ayala Valderrama and Sarango are Fremont Sureno gang members who believed they were shooting into a car of rival gang members. Five other people were in the car with Eliyanah.
Each suspect has been charged with killing Eliyanah as well as other offenses. The three were driving a red Honda Accord and are alleged to have shot at another person in Fremont about 15 minutes earlier.
In shooting Eliyanah, the suspects flashed gang symbols, prosecutors said. Fremont police believe the other shooting was also gang-related.
Anaya, Ayala Valderrama and Sarango are in custody in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. Anaya and Ayala Valderrama are expected to enter pleas on Thursday at the East County Hall of Justice in Dublin. Sarango is expected in court Monday to enter a plea.
All three defendants have been charged with murder, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and seven counts of shooting at an occupied motor vehicle. Ayala Valderrama and Anaya also face felony charges of carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle and carrying a loaded firearm on their person in a city.
The civil complaint from the DA’s Office does not include any gang, gun or vulnerable victim enhancements or special allegations.
Editor’s note: Embarcadero Media East Bay editorial director Jeremy Walsh continued details about the criminal complaint to this story.
Editor’s note: Embarcadero Media East Bay editorial director Jeremy Walsh continued details about the criminal complaint to this story.
Editor’s note: Embarcadero Media East Bay editorial director Jeremy Walsh continued details about the criminal complaint to this story.
Lots of Thug Life out there. Embolden, yet stupid. Loud, yet immature. So many factors play into the Thug Life mindset.
See, Thug Life existed long before the claims of systematic racism, being poor, disadvantaged, and uneducated. Only when Thug Life faces the possibility of a lengthy incarceration do they pull out the “Woe is me” card.
I for one, don’t feel sorry for Thug Life. In fact, when Thug Life is introduced into the prison population, they soon realize that their fellow Thug Life don’t care about them either. Wow, talk about coming full circle. What comes around goes around, right?
It’s vicious cycle, but one that Thug Life can’t seem to break. In other words, some people are just plain evil and don’t want to change. However, the excuse makers for Thug Life – that of the BLM clan, Antifa, and Social Justice Warriors, will pardon Thug Life no matter the offense.
A sad state of affairs.
The progressive left should not be condoning this type of violence based on the sociological and economic backgrounds of the perpetrators.
Like cigarettes, no one is born with a deadly firearm in their hands.
It is time to curtail random violence by incarcerating the criminals to a fuller extent with harsher mandatory sentencing guidelines.
Bring back the Three Strikes Rule as well.