LIVERMORE — Authorities on Thursday announced the arrests of two men and two boys in connection with a gang-related car-to-car shooting last week in Livermore.
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Around 11 p.m. on July 15, the victim called police to report he had just left a gym with his mother and sister and was being followed by a black truck, the Livermore Police Department said in a news release.
The occupants of the truck fired several shots at the victim’s car when they reached the intersection of Park and North I streets, police said. No one in the car was injured.
Officers found the truck at a home in Tracy and identified the suspects, police said.
An 18-year-old Tracy man and a 16-year-old Livermore boy were arrested on July 16 and an 18-year-old Livermore man and a 17-year-old Livermore boy were arrested on July 18, police said. All four were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Police said a handgun was also recovered.
“The victim and suspects are familiar with each other,” police said. “Police believe the shooting is gang-related.”
The case has been turned over to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for charging.