Tracy Press

A Bay Area teen was charged for allegedly stabbing another teenager, but the suspect's family said he acted in self-defense.

Blood spilled Monday during an alleged gang fight dried into dark, nickel-sized splotches on the sidewalk and driveway of a home where an Alameda teen allegedly stabbed a 15-year-old in the stomach with a 6-inch pocketknife, according to a police report.

A trail of the droplets lead to the front door, where attacker stumbled after the fight, his face “messed up” and his nose possibly broken, according to his mother, Yolanda Barrera.

Blood splatter covers the sidewalk on Falcon Court, where a young man was stabbed in the stomach during a fight Monday. Glenn Moore/Tracy Press

The 17-year-old Bay Area teen was charged today with felony assault with a deadly weapon and inflicting bodily injury, according to family members after the hearing.

But he was acting in self-defense, his family maintained. Another court hearing is set for Monday. Both teens will be kept behind bars, at least until then.

Both he and the victim were sent to the hospital Monday and released shortly after in stable condition, police said today.

The 17-year-old's girlfriend, 18-year-old Georgina Rodriguez, said that the Alameda resident was visiting his family on the 400 block of Falcon Court, adjacent to Huck Park, when a group of about 15 Norteño gang members showed up to the two-story tract home at 6:30 p.m. That's when the group started beating him up, Rodriguez said this afternoon.

The San Joaquin District Attorney’s Office could not release information about the incident or confirm the claims made by the attacker’s family because both parties are minors.

The alleged attacker has a 1-year-old daughter whom he supports by working part-time as a barber after school, Rodriguez said. He was in Tracy to cut the hair of his uncle and young cousin, she added.

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written by Coldblodded , May 08, 2008

Let the animals wipe themselves out.

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written by tepa loco , May 08, 2008

i hate when 15 nortenos "randomly" show up at my house to beat me up

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written by OMP , May 08, 2008

Wow what has our world come to, people trying to kill other people over something prob really stupid, you have a one year one its not about you any more it is about the baby girl, now your not going to be able to even take care of the baby how sad thank god for the mother not getting into what the father has done....Dang i was 17 when i had my son and you can see the bigger picture not the childish one, why cant you just see its not about you

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written by Silly Me , May 08, 2008

Why cant we be freinds?

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written by tracyisghetto , May 08, 2008

this little chickens are only tough when there is 15 of them. Start sending these toughguy nortenos to iraq if they want to fight and only let them take their knives with them. That will solve the problem. If they don't like that, deport them and their families. Either way, problem solved!!!

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written by u stupid , May 08, 2008

stop talking about deportation....not all gang members are illegal immigrants u idiot...... to "tracyisghetto"

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written by tracyisghetto , May 08, 2008

ok, you're right. Send 75% of them and all their families back. and send u stupid too.

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written by ConcernedParents , May 08, 2008

I hope they arrest the other 14 punks that were involved.

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written by Pascal , May 08, 2008

U Stupid, some gang members may not be illegal immigrants, but I assure you some of them have illegal parents or grandparents. Still, this is beside the point; however, I doubt you will ever get it. Crime is embraced by tbose who are powerless to know what education is about.

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written by what , May 08, 2008

written by tracyisghetto , May 08, 2008
ok, you're right. Send 75% of them and all their families back. and send u stupid too.

Wow,I'm still amazed that you can use the Computer idiot! I hope that they catch these punks, but I bet that most or all of them are Citizens and not Illegals! Also they are mostly from the Bay not Locals! Let the Police handle it not the INS.

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written by norma , May 09, 2008

I THINK ALL OF U ARE SOME IGNORANT ASS PEOPLE.... I SAW THE WHOLE FIGHT CUZ IT HAPPEND IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE. IT WAS SELF DEFENSE THANK U VERY MUCH. ALL THESE NORTENOS OR GANG MEMBERS SHOULD STOP FIGHTIN THEIR OWN KIND ND INSTEAD FIGHT HATING ASS PEOPLE... I HOPE IT ALL GETS SORTED OUT AND FAKE ASS PEOPLE NEED TO GET THEIR STORY STRAIGHT OR AT LEAST KNOW WAT THEY ARE TALKING BOUT BEFORE TALKING..... DUMB ASS PEOPLE

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written by tracyisghetto , May 09, 2008

norma, you need to learn to spell like an american not a ghetto trash. no wonder you are sticking up for these idiots.

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written by Jerry , May 09, 2008

I wonder how a bunch of Nortenos just happened to show up and pick this guy out for a beat-down.

Can Norma or any of the others present explain that for us?

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written by Silly Me , May 09, 2008

tracyisghetto:
Why are you not in Iraq fighting the war?
(things taht make ya go hummmmm!)

ANOTHER THING!WHY DO YOU ALWAYS THROW THE ILLEGAL MEXICAN CARD WHEN AN ARTICLE IS ABOUT GANGS, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND SUCH? IT IS OBVIOUS THAT YOU HAVE SOME SERIOUS ISSUES OF YOUR OWN THT NEED SOME SORTING OUT! WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF!

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written by Silly Me , May 09, 2008

OH JUST SHUT IT!!!!!

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written by OMP , May 09, 2008

omg people this isnt about color or race, its about the people who stab other people for some stupid reason and then they wont have any life when this is all done and over with

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written by woww , May 09, 2008

Wow. My goodness. People just need to stop having babies too young and get themselves an education. Maybe, this same ordeal will not keep happening as often as it does. Stop over-populating and open a book or two. I am graduating with numerous honors at the end of this month, and this ordeal of gangs is just disguisting.

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written by 1234 , May 11, 2008

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written by DC , May 13, 2008

It would be interesting if the Tracy Press did a story on gangbangers and the education level and also the education level of their parents. They say that it's an economic issue, we'll we all know that if you don't go to school then your probably going to be on the low end of the economic teer. Try to get to the core of the issue, since it seems to be getting more and more prevailant in Tracy and the surrounding areas.