The incident in East Palo Alto last month has culminated in an arrest, according to the local police department. On October 18, authorities were called to the 1000 block of Beech Street after a ShotSpotter activation, but they arrived at a puzzle with missing pieces, evidence of gunfire, but neither victim nor suspect was in sight.
It wasn't until November 8, in an unexpected turn, that a man appeared at the East Palo Alto Police Department, claiming to have been targeted in the shootout as mentioned earlier. Naming Luis Albert Sotelo-Villa, 36, as the assailant, he revealed a second individual had also been in the car at the time of the assault, dodging injury just as narrowly, according to the East Palo Alto Police Department.
EPA detectives, leveraging FLOCK technology, homed in on the suspect's vehicle. Working in concert with the U.S. Marshals Service, they executed a strategic apprehension last Thursday, descending on Sotelo-Villa's East Palo Alto home, the police announced. Sotelo-Villa, with a prohibition on firearm possession, was arrested sans drama and booked at the San Mateo County Jail.
