3 'Lay-In-Wait' Ambush Shooting Suspects Arrested In San Bruno

SAN BRUNO, CA — Three men were arrested last week in connection with a “lay-in-wait” ambush last month that lift a victim hospitalized with a gunshot wound, San Bruno police said.

The three suspects are 21, 22 and 26 years old, and members of an East Bay gang, according to police. They have not been publicly identified.

Multiple agencies assisted local authorities in the arrests, in which an AK-47 style pistol, three semi-automatic handguns (one with a high-capacity drum magazine) and an un-serialized ghost gun were seized, according to police.

Officers at around 7:15 p.m. Nov. 26 were dispatched to the 700 block of Kains Avenue on a report of a shooting, police said.

An officer while responding to the call pulled over a vehicle that was fleeing the area at a high rate of speed, and the officer determined two males in the car had been victims of the shooting, of which one had a gunshot wound to his arm, police said.

The victim was transported to the hospital where he was treated and released.

An investigation determined the victims had been ambushed by multiple armed suspects who had been laying in wait outside of a local business, police said.

Dozens of shots were fired at the victims and one of the victims fired back with a handgun, according to police.

Before police could arrive at the scene, the suspects fled, but they left behind a crashed vehicle and other evidence, such as an assault pistol, a handgun and dozens of shell casings.

Investigators found that the suspects abandoned their vehicle after it became disabled from the crash, then fled on foot until another vehicle picked them up a short distance away.

San Bruno police provided a video of the incident taken from surveillance cameras.

The investigation and apprehension of the suspects was carried out by a multi-agency operation involving the San Mateo North Central Regional SWAT; SWAT teams from Richmond, Oakland, and Union City Police departments, and the San Leandro Police Department, as well as the U.S. Marshals, among others.

— Bay City News contributed to this report