After an Alameda County sheriff's office investigation, a man has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon for deliberately hitting several women with his vehicle in San Lorenzo Nov. 25. (File)
SAN LORENZO — A 31-year-old Oakland man is facing charges of attempted murder and more after he allegedly responded to a request to leave a family party by using his car to run down four women, breaking one woman’s leg, according to authorities and court records.
In addition to four counts of attempted murder in the incident late last month, Leandro Angelo Torres is also charged with four counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in serious bodily injury.
He was arrested Nov. 29 and is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail.
According to court records, at the time of the latest incident, Torres was on probation in Alameda County for a February 2022 conviction of shooting at an unoccupied vehicle. He is scheduled to enter a plea Thursday.
According to authorities, Torres got into a disruptive dispute at a family party on Nov. 25 in the 16000 block of Via Alamitos in San Lorenzo and was asked to leave.
He did, but according to court records a witness heard him make numerous death threats toward unspecified persons before getting into his Honda Accord and briefly driving away.
Within moments he made a U-turn and drove back, striking a relative’s parked vehicle before backing into four women standing outside the residence, authorities and the records say.
Three of the women were pinned against a parked vehicle. One of the women suffered a broken fibula and tibia and two had major complaints of pain and bruising, the records say.
Torres fled in his vehicle. He was arrested Nov. 29 after turning himself in to sheriff’s investigators.
According to the documents, Torres claimed to investigators that at the time of the alleged violence, he was under the influence of marijuana edibles, that his vehicle had transmission problems and that he thought he had only struck a tree before driving away.
If convicted of the charges he could face up to 12 years in prison, authorities said.
Originally published at Harry Harris