Police arrest teens linked to Marin case

Investigators have arrested a group of teenage boys suspected of a regional crime wave that includes a robbery in Marin County.

The crime happened at 3 a.m. Nov. 30 at the 7-Eleven market at 80 Medway Road in the Canal area of San Rafael. Surveillance footage showed two robbers threatening a store clerk with a gun and taking cash from the register.

San Rafael police Lt. Dan Fink said a third robber drove the getaway car, which was reported stolen in Albany hours before the robbery.

The robbers were suspected in a series of similar crimes at 7-Eleven stores in Manteca, San Jose, El Cerrito and San Leandro since Sept. 30, Fink said.

On Dec. 9, a robbery attempt at a 7-Eleven in San Jose turned into a deadly shooting. Police said the group of teens confronted a man in the parking lot and tried to rob him.

During the encounter, one of the suspects shot the man at least once, and he died at the scene. The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office identified the victim as 31-year-old Gursharan Singh.

The day after the shooting, San Jose police traveled to the Richmond area, where they arrested three teenage boys in connection with the killing. A week later, a fourth boy was arrested at another location outside Santa Clara County.

The boys’ names are being withheld because they are minors.

Police did not report the arrests until the Bay Area News Group asked about the case on Monday.

The deadly attack in San Jose was the city’s 43rd homicide of 2020, a total that rose to 44 on New Year’s Eve with a shooting at an apartment on Rose Lane in East San Jose.