(The following report by Jason Kobely appeared on Sacramento’s News10.net website on May 3.)
SACRAMENTO — Two more teens were arrested and a 19-year-old is still being sought in connection with a gang-related attack that hospitalized an Amtrak engineer in West Sacramento last month, West Sacramento police authorities said.
The two most recent arrestees, identified only as a 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old boy, were booked into the Yolo County Jail and face with multiple felony charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, train robbery and street gang terrorism, West Sacramento police Lt. David Farmer said.
The unidentified engineer suffered injuries from thrown rocks and bottles when he left the cab of the eastbound Capitol Corridor train #546 near the I Street bridge to clear a group of seven people blocking the tracks April 16.
Two other juveniles were arrested in the days immediately following the attack and Farmer said all four suspects were gang members or known associates. Farmer said West Sacramento Police in conjunction with Amtrak and Union Pacific Railroad police also talked with a another 16-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl who were present, but not involved in the attack.
Officers continued to look for a seventh suspect in the assault, Pauliton Ricardo Nunes, 19, of West Sacramento. Nunes faces is described as 5-foot-9 and weighing 155 lbs. Anyone with information on Nunez’s whereabouts was asked to call the West Sacramento Police Department at 916-617-4955 or 916-617-4935.