SAN JOSE — A man long jailed in connection with a violent crime spree in the summer of 2021 — which left a man dead, several people seriously injured and an East Bay police officer recovering from a vehicle assault — has been linked to the presumed shooting death of a Coyote Creek man who has never been found, authorities said.
The only other instance in modern Santa Clara County history where a murder charge was filed without a victim’s body involved the infamous case of, the Morgan Hill teen who was kidnapped and raped by Antolin Garcia-Torres in 2012. She has not been found despite extensive community-led searches in South County.
Padilla appeared in a San Jose courtroom Tuesday morning for arraignment on the new charges, but the hearing was postponed until Wednesday while the court sorts out his legal representation to eliminate conflicts stemming from his other active cases. He is also suspected of stabbing a person nearby at Second and Margaret streets on May 9 of that year. The investigation also implicated him in a May 11 assault outside a 7-Eleven on Bird Avenue, and in a stabbing near Coyote Creek that same day.
Padilla was charged with the June 2021 shooting the following February, when prosecutors filed three assault charges against him for the shooting victim and two other victims who were not hit, according to court records.
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