A Morgan Hill man awaiting trial in a Watsonville homicide case appeared in court Thursday with two others to face new gang-related attempted murder charges.
Matthew Madriz Alcaraz, 19, and Adrian Ortiz, 23, were each charged with an allegedly gang-related shanking of a 20-year-old fellow inmate on June 26 in the Santa Cruz County Jail.
The two face criminal enhancements of causing great bodily injury and participating in street terrorism. Attorneys for the two men delayed entering pleas at their arraignment until July 14. A third codefendant, Leo Rueda, 38, faces charges of gang-related assault with a deadly weapon and a street terrorism enhancement.
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