17 Hells Angels, associates face charges after hate-attack in Ocean Beach: San Diego DA

Seventeen people have been indicted on various charges involving an attack on three Black men by members of the Hells Angels biker gang in San Diego this year, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

The victims, ages 19, 20 and 21, were chased and attacked in San Diego’s Ocean Beach neighborhood on June 6, subjected to a racial epithet and told they didn’t belong there, prosecutors said in a news release.

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said the melee was possibly sparked because one of the victims “dared to talk to one of the girlfriends of these members.”

The incident occurred on OB’s main drag, Newport Avenue. One victim escaped injury by running, another was punched, kicked and knocked unconscious, and the last victim, who was lying on the ground after several people beat him, was also allegedly stabbed in the chest by 43-year-old Troy Anthony Scholder, described as a “longtime Hells Angels leader.” After the stabbing, other defendants spirited Scholder from the crime scene to the gang’s clubhouse in El Cajon, Stephan said.

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