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 Shooting occurred following funeral of Hells Angel |
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A Hells Angels associate killed in Marin County on Saturday night was identified as a 27-year-old San Leandro man who had attended a Hells Angel funeral earlier that day on the Peninsula, authorities said Sunday.
The victim, whose name was not released pending notification of family, was shot at about 8:15 p.m. Saturday while riding in a white Chevy pickup truck that was leading a procession of Hells Angels motorcyclists through Marin to Sonoma County.
Sheriff's investigators said someone in a red sport-utility vehicle, possibly a Dodge Durango, opened fire on the Chevy pickup on northbound Highway 101 between Tiburon Boulevard in Mill Valley and the Paradise Drive exit in Corte Madera. The victim was struck in the upper body.
The driver of the pickup truck, a member of the motorcycle club, veered off the freeway at Paradise Drive and called 911 from the pay phone at California Highway Patrol headquarters in Corte Madera. The victim was rushed to Marin General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Sheriff's Sgt. Keith Boyd said an "altercation" on the highway preceded the shooting, but it was unclear whether incident was connected to the motorcycle association.
"We're not sure whether this was a targeted incident or a random act of violence," Boyd said.
The red SUV exited the freeway and escaped. It was unclear whether the other Hells Angels members chased the vehicle and obtained the license plate number, but none was provided to investigators.
Boyd
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said he had no indication the Hells Angels are trying to find the killer themselves to dispense "street justice" on their own.
"We're hoping that the members of the club will be open and honest and provide as much information as possible," he said.
Anyone who saw the vehicles on northbound Highway 101 between 7:30 and 8:20 p.m. Saturday is asked to call the sheriff's investigations unit at 499-7265. The red SUV might have damaged windows.
Earlier Saturday, the victim attended memorial services on the Peninsula for Carl "J.R." Serrano, a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club Frisco chapter in San Francisco. Serrano, 56, died of cancer on May 4 in a prison in North Carolina, according to Duggan's Serra Mortuary in Daly City.
There was a viewing at the mortuary Friday night, attended by 50 to 100 Hells Angels members and other mourners. A memorial service was at the mortuary from approximately 11 a.m. to noon Saturday, and about 200 people attended.
Daly City police parked across the street from the mortuary to monitor both services, a standard procedure for Hells Angels funerals, said Daly City police Lt. John Gamez.
"It's just a routine to make sure there's no rival club members in the area," Gamez said. "It went very smoothly ... no indication anything was going on."
But according to a mortuary spokesperson, investigators took the unusual step of coming into the mortuary after the mourners had left Friday and making copies of the guestbook and family photographs.
"It wasn't our department who did that," Gamez said. "There could be other agencies involved in intelligence gathering. No uniformed police officers were in there, and no one went in there at my direction."
After the memorial service Saturday, a procession of Hells Angels rode to San Francisco, then came back through Daly City on their way to a burial service at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Colma, Gamez said.
Contact Gary Klien via e-mail at gklien@marinij.com
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_9380151
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