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(Pointy-headed black man) Arrested for Double Homicide, Home-invasion - (White man killed, his son beaten) - black's cohort dead
 A day after two people were killed in the South Bay off Highway 17, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office announced on Thursday the arrest of a 43-year-old man who took off in a Prius on charges of murder, burglary, kidnapping and false imprisonment. Sgt. James Jensen said Andre Redmon of San Francisco was booked following the Wednesday saga where first, a man inside a Redwood Estates home near Los Gatos was shot to death, and then Redmon's passenger died following a crash in Redmon's getaway Prius in Campbell about 12 miles away.
Redmon was booked on suspicion of two counts of murder, two counts of false imprisonment, one count of kidnapping for robbery and one count of burglary. He was being held on no bail. Investigators were at the Redwood Estates home Thursday gathering evidence. They offered no motive in the crimes and did not say whether Redmon knew the victims. Redmon originally dumped his getaway Prius and ran away from the crash on Highway 17 near East Hamilton Avenue in Campbell. He was arrested Wednesday night.
Deputies are linking Redmon to the two deaths, with the first reported just before 11 a.m. That's when deputies responded to a report of shots fired in the 21400 block of Madrone Drive in Redwood Estates near Los Gatos. When they went inside, they found a man shot to death.
Two other unidentified people were injured in Redwood Estates, deputies said, adding that one person was taken to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and the second was treated at the scene. - (Black-on-white) |
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- Redwood Estates shooting: Man arrested, but mystery abounds in rare slaying
REDWOOD ESTATES -- Even as a man sits in jail in connection with a rare deadly shooting in this hamlet nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains outside Los Gatos, authorities and longtime residents are still trying to piece together what spurred the grisly bout of violence that left a literal trail of blood on their sleepy streets. The unsettling Wednesday morning confrontation inside a home on Madrone Drive ended in the death of Robert "Bob" Harden, a 52-year-old Harley-Davidson enthusiast who ran his own hauling business and was raising three school-aged children with his wife, according to neighborhood residents and sources familiar with the investigation. Two other men were injured in the clash but are expected to survive. On Thursday, the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office identified a man who witnesses say sped away from the crime scene in a silver Toyota Prius as Andre Redmon, a 43-year-old man from San Francisco. Redmon, who has an extensive criminal history spanning multiple Bay Area counties, has been booked on suspicion of murder, false imprisonment, and kidnapping for purpose of robbery and burglary, though investigators have declined to reveal a motive behind the allegations. A male passenger in the Prius died.
What still remains a mystery, at least publicly, is the role of Redmon's passenger in the Prius, which crashed into a barrier on the Hamilton Avenue offramp from northbound Highway 17 less than 20 minutes after the shooting, which was reported just before 11 a.m. As deputies captured a fleeing Redmon, emergency personnel were rushing the gravely injured unidentified passenger from the Campbell crash site to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Sources told this newspaper that the passenger was seriously wounded 12 miles away during the confrontation at Redwood Estates and likely bled to death during the high-speed highway escape that eventually drew deputies.
- 'Terrible Act of Violence': Widow of Los Gatos Man Killed Mourns Loss, Prius Driver to be Arraigned on Murder Charges
The widow of a Los Gatos man shot to death Wednesday inside his home said she was suffering over the fact that her husband died in a "terrible act of violence." She made that statement several hours before the Prius driver suspected of killing him - a convicted burglar and robber who was last arrested for shoplifting from Macy's - was set to be charged with murder and burglary allegations.
Robert “Bob” Harden was one of two men killed on the same day, just 12 miles apart from each other, in a mysterious and murderous rampage, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Through tears on Friday morning, Marlene Harden confirmed her 52-year-old husband, and father of three, was shot to death about 11 a.m. on Madrone Drive in Los Gatos. But she said she was in too much of a state of shock to speak and issued a statement and photos instead. She briefly described her husband as a "loving family man" who "tragically lost his life" to a "terrible act of violence."
Marlene Harden asked, through a friend, not to be asked any more questions and referred anyone who wanted to help to a GoFundMe page in her husband's honor.
What has been made known is the name of the suspect who deputies allege killed both Harden and the passenger in his car. Deputies arrested Andre Redmon, 43, after he crashed his getaway Prius on Highway 17 near Campbell after allegedly shooting Harden to death. Deputies had put spike strips on the road to stop the Prius, which is when they were able to stop Redmon.
- Redwood Estates shooting: San Francisco man charged with two counts of murder
Two intruders looking to ransack a Redwood Estates home earlier this week ambushed the homeowner's son then shot and killed the homeowner in a violent sequence that ended with one suspect in jail on murder charges and his accomplice in the morgue, authorities say. Andre Redmon, 43, of San Francisco was arraigned Friday on two counts of murder, one each for the death of the homeowner, 52-year-old Robert "Bob" Harden, and an accomplice who later died. Redmon was also charged with a special circumstance because the deaths occurred during a robbery. Redmon, who has a lengthy criminal history in multiple Bay Area counties, is being held without bail in the Santa Clara County jail. Redmon and a man believed to be his accomplice went to Harden's Madrone Drive home around 8 a.m. Wednesday and came upon Harden's adult son in the kitchen while brandishing handguns, demanding that the son tell them where Harden "hid his money and 'stuff,' "
The assailants held a gun to the son's head as they went to a master bedroom in search of money. The second suspect repeatedly hit the son in the head with a mallet while demanding the location of money, the report said. Around 10:30 a.m., a man visiting the home entered through the front door and was similarly ambushed by Redmon and his accomplice, and they also bound the man and covered his mouth with duct tape before putting him on a couch and covering him with a blanket. Not long after, Harden entered the home and he and the intruders got into a "physical confrontation followed by approximately six gunshots," Omori wrote. Harden could be heard yelling "You don't have to do anything" before he was apparently killed by a gunshot to the head. Redmon's accomplice suffered a serious injury on his arm.
- Help the Harden family - (gofundme)
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