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Man, 21, is fatally stabbed
in gang brawl, police say
Sunnyvale police are seeking a suspect who fatally stabbed a 21-year-old man Friday night in what neighbors and police described as a large gang brawl.
About 11:32 p.m., police responded to calls about the fight on the 1100 block of Ayala Drive. Neighbors said the melee had lasted about five minutes before Pablo Rosales of Sunnyvale was stabbed numerous times.
After being stabbed, Rosales managed to flee
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the scene with four friends in a white, four-door Saturn, police said. But he died in the Hilton Gardens hotel parking lot in Mountain View, where the group, allegedly Sureño gang members, called 911.
"It's an ongoing investigation," said Lt. David Pitts of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. "We've been working all weekend."
Some teenagers who saw the fight, but refused to give their names, said a group drove by, threw bottles at them and later tried to fight them. They said they managed to fend the group off, but as Rosales was returning to the car, another group, members of the rival Norteños gang, intercepted him, threw him to the ground, started beating him with bricks and later stabbed him, the witnesses said.
Man, 21, is fatally stabbed
in gang brawl, police say
Sunnyvale police are seeking a suspect who fatally stabbed a 21-year-old man Friday night in what neighbors and police described as a large gang brawl.
About 11:32 p.m., police responded to calls about the fight on the 1100 block of Ayala Drive. Neighbors said the melee had lasted about five minutes before Pablo Rosales of Sunnyvale was stabbed numerous times.
After being stabbed, Rosales managed to flee
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the scene with four friends in a white, four-door Saturn, police said. But he died in the Hilton Gardens hotel parking lot in Mountain View, where the group, allegedly Sureño gang members, called 911.
"It's an ongoing investigation," said Lt. David Pitts of the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. "We've been working all weekend."
Some teenagers who saw the fight, but refused to give their names, said a group drove by, threw bottles at them and later tried to fight them. They said they managed to fend the group off, but as Rosales was returning to the car, another group, members of the rival Norteños gang, intercepted him, threw him to the ground, started beating him with bricks and later stabbed him, the witnesses said.