Police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of attempted
murder in connection with the shooting Wednesday evening outside a
Western Court home on the city’s west side.
Hollister
Police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in connection with the shooting Wednesday evening outside a Western Court home on the city’s west side.
Jose Avalos, 22, of Hollister, remained in stable condition Thursday at a Bay Area hospital after being shot in his stomach the evening before, said officer Rosie Betanio, spokeswoman for the Hollister Police Department. A CALSTAR helicopter landed at Calaveras School grounds across the street from the crime scene Wednesday to take Avalos to the hospital.
It was the fourth attempted murder in Hollister this year.
Martin Antonio Delreal, 23, of Hollister, was booked into the county jail on suspicion of attempted murder and is being held there in lieu of $500,000 in bail.
Authorities believe Delreal and Avalos got into a confrontation in front of the victim’s residence on Western Court, Betanio said.
San Benito County sheriff’s deputies and an officer apprehended a man on the Calaveras School campus.
Authorities were holding a vomiting man in the back of a patrol car on Buena Vista Road within 30 minutes of the shooting.
Officers and deputies patrolled the Villa Hermosa neighborhood in patrol cars after the shooting.
Neighbors lined Central Avenue, watching the police investigation unfold and the helicopter land at the school.
Police suspect it could have been a gang-related shooting, Capt. Richard Vasquez said. Officers responded to the scene shortly after 5 p.m.
“We still don’t know what caused the fight to happen,” Vasquez said Thursday morning.
It was Hollister’s second shooting in two days.
Gunfire missed Hollister police officers and a sheriff’s deputy Tuesday night in a supermarket parking lot on McCray Street. No one was injured in the shooting, and authorities do not have any suspects.
