Police arrested a 20-year-old man last week in connection to a September incident in which he brandished a gun at three juveniles in San Jose, authorities revealed Thursday.
The three minors, ages 11 to 13, were walking along McLaughlin Avenue around 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 23 when the suspect approached them in a vehicle. Police said the suspect made comments to the children before pointing a handgun with a high-capacity magazine at them. The suspect quickly drove off afterward.
Following an investigation, the suspect was arrested Nov. 3 and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and brandishing a firearm. Upon execution of an arrest warrant, police found the gun from the September incident along with an illegal high-capacity magazine, authorities say.
San Jose Police Department officials said the investigation was helped by the use of recently installed license-plate reading cameras. The cameras were produced by tech startup Flock Safety, which the City of San Jose contracted with in hopes of cracking down on hit-and-run traffic collisions.
The technology has been viewed as controversial by organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union for creating “an entirely new level of surveillance to American communities.” Other Bay Area cities including Newark, Saratoga and Alameda have instituted, and in some cases already expanded, license-plate reader programs similar to San Jose’s.
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