Nearly a year after that frightening nighttime tire-slashing spree and stabbing in the Healdsburg Community Center parking lot, local police say they found their main suspect living under an alias in the small town of Los Gatos on the southwest edge of San Jose. Within days of the alleged attack on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, cops had named their suspect as Healdsburg resident Damian Martinez Osorio, 29. (At the time, they said he also went by the name “Gael Leon.”) Now, Healdsburg police officials say they’re “glad to be able to bring closure to this case.” More from their announcement this week:
On Wednesday March 12th, 2025 Officers arrested suspect Damian Martines-Osorio on charges of attempted murder, vandalism, and resisting arrest. This arrest came as a culmination of extensive investigation that led officers to Los Gatos where they located Martines-Osorio who was suspected of fleeing Healdsburg after the suspected attack and who was now living under another alias. Upon being contacted by Healdsburg Police Officers with the assistance of Officers from Los Gatos Police Department Martines-Osorio attempted to flee on foot and was captured while trying to jump over a fence. He was booked in the Sonoma County Jail on a no bail hold for charges stemming from this case as well as 3 other outstanding warrants.
And here’s the original police announcement from last year:
At about 9:45 PM, Healdsburg Police received a call of a victim who had been attacked in the parking lot of the Healdsburg Community Center… by a subject with a knife. Officers learned that the victim had been sitting in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Community Center when he noticed the suspect in the parking lot slashing vehicle tires. When the victim exited his vehicle, he was confronted by the suspect who attempted to stab the victim with a knife. During the ensuing struggle the victim sustained a cut to his hand. The victim was able to get away and was chased a short distance away by the suspect, who eventually fled into the creek bed that runs along the Foss Creek Pathway. Officers were unable to locate the suspect after an extensive approximately 3 hours long search with the assistance from Deputies with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and CHP’s helicopter.
At one point, old police logs show the suspect may have fled to the Oak Grove Apartments on Grove Street — but officers never found him. (The logs also show four cars had their tires slashed that night at the Community Center.) The Press Democrat reported last week that Damian Martinez Osorio was being held without bail at Sonoma County jail and was scheduled to appear last Friday in Sonoma County Superior Court.
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