Fremont police make arrest in January shooting while investigating March homicide
Detectives are working to determine if the drive-by shooting and the homicide are connected, police said.
FREMONT — Fremont police on Friday announced they arrested a suspect in connection with a January drive-by shooting while investigating an attempted home-invasion robbery that ended in a homicide Wednesday.
On Jan. 24, a suspect in a car fired one shot from a handgun “either at or near a pedestrian” near the intersection of Grimmer Boulevard and Blacow Road, police said.
The pedestrian did not report the incident, but members of the Southern Alameda County Major Crimes Task Force collected video of the shooting and located witnesses, police said. The task force is a special unit consisting of officers from multiple agencies and supervised by a Fremont sergeant.
Detectives identified a possible suspect in February and “began extended surveillance operations on the suspect and his residence,” police said, adding that it was the same unit at the Mosaic Apartments in Fremont where a man attempting to break into an apartment was shot by another resident Wednesday night.
The man who was shot was with a “group of armed suspects,” police said. He was found lying wounded in the parking lot of the complex at 39867 Fremont Blvd. and died a short time later.
In the wake of the homicide, task force detectives were able to collect enough evidence to arrest one of the residents of the apartment for “willfully discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner” in connection with the drive-by shooting, police said.
The resident who was arrested, a 23-year-old Fremont man, was not the same person who opened fire on the home-invasion robbery suspects, police said. He was booked into Santa Rita Jail and released after he posted $50,000 bail. He is scheduled to appear in court in May.
Detectives are working to determine if the drive-by shooting and the homicide are connected, police said.
Police said anyone with information about either shooting can contact the Investigations Unit at 510-790-6900 or the task force at 510-790-6660.