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Mountain View police said Friday that a Tracy man was arrested after allegedly hitting two bar patrons with his car outside of the Sports Page bar last Saturday morning.
Witnesses told police that the suspect got into an argument with the two victims, a man and a woman, inside the bar in the 1000 block of Plymouth Street shortly before 2 a.m. on May 26, according to a statement by the Mountain View Police Department. When the pair tried to leave, the suspect reportedly got into his car and drove into them in the parking lot, injuring the man and pinning the woman beneath the vehicle, police said.
The suspect tried to drive away while the woman was still under the vehicle, but bystanders pulled him from the vehicle and attacked him, police said. Other people at the scene flipped over the car in order to free the woman who was trapped underneath it.
On June 1, police said the suspect, identified as Gerardo Munoz, 31, was arrested on two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of driving under the influence causing serious bodily injury.
Munoz and both victims were transported to a nearby hospital, police said, and all three were in stable condition as of Wednesday. Police offered no update on their status Friday.
Sports Page owner Rob Graham told the Voice that the suspect and the two people struck by the vehicle were in the bar earlier that night following a Shoreline concert, but that no altercation took place inside the bar itself. He said surveillance footage he reviewed with the police department shows the suspect speeding up to strike the two bar patrons around 2:09 a.m., after the bar had been closed for the night and the doors had been locked.
If the witness claims are true that the three had gotten into an argument, Graham said it must have happened after the bar closed.
“It wasn’t a fight that initiated or started at Sports Page,” he said. “There is zero footage showing them talking.”
Anyone with information is asked to call police Det. Dan Garcia at 650-903-6624.
What happened to the MV Voice policy of not naming names?
Right, Juan. Who would ever expect a bar fight to happen at… a bar? It must be Live Nation’s fault. Especially since the Shoreline concert ended 4 hours before the bar fight in question.
“It wasn’t a fight that initiated or started at Sports Page” – then where did it initiate? And why did someone from Tracy suddenly decide to show up in Mountain View and run people over? The answer to both questions is likely The Shoreline Amphitheatre. I hope MVPD is investigating and getting answers, if it turns out this is Amphitheatre-related violence then Live Nation’s contract needs to be revoked. It’s one thing (though also completely unacceptable) for violence to occur at an Amphitheatre event, but this was hours after an event, on public streets.
Juan may be right that the guy hit that Shoreline concert first. But that would be no good reason to ends concerts. Maybe the Voice will follow the case and report how it turns out.