PALO ALTO – Authorities on Tuesday arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of shooting a woman at Stanford University and later attempting to rob a grocery store in Palo Alto.
The shooting was reported around 2 a.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of Arboretum Drive, said Deputy Felicia Segura of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived to find a 47-year-old woman suffering from at least one gunshot wound to her leg.
The woman’s injury was not life-threatening and she was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Roughly 17½ hours later, around 7:35 p.m., a man armed with a handgun walked into the Trader Joe’s at Town & Country Village, located at 855 El Camino Real, and announced he was planning to rob the place, according to the Palo Alto Police Department.
Officers arrived at the grocery store minutes later and were told by employees that the man had entered an empty employee break room. Around 7:40 p.m., the man was safely detained in the break room, police said. No one was injured in the incident.
Police said the man had a 9mm handgun in his waistband. The firearm was loaded and not registered.
While he was being processed at the police station, the man asked for paramedics “due to his narcotics use,” according to police. He was then taken to a hospital for treatment.
An investigation linked the man to the Stanford University shooting, which police said happened around 1 a.m. Tuesday in the eucalyptus groves at the campus. The man, identified as Robert Daniels, was turned over to the sheriff’s office, police said.
Additional details about the shooting, including a motive, were not immediately available.
Daniels was booked into county jail on a charge of attempted murder, Segura said.
Palo Alto police said they will also seek attempted robbery and firearm violation charges from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
Anyone with information related to the shooting can contact the sheriff’s office at 408-808-4500 or its tip line at 408-808-4431. And anyone with information related to the attempted robbery can contact the police department at 650-329-2413; those wishing to remain anonymous can call or text 650-383-8984 or email paloalto@tipnow.org.
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