SAN CLEMENTE : 3 Stabbing Suspects Surrender to Police

Three local teen-agers, wanted in connection with a stabbing last weekend which allegedly involved members of an Orange County skinhead gang, surrendered to San Clemente police Tuesday.

Witness identification of a car license plate led police to three youths suspected of involvement in a late-night confrontation Saturday which left one man in critical condition with a stab wound in the chest, Sgt. Richard Downing said.

Michael A. Bojorquez, owner of the car, and Jason B. Groves, both 18, were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and released on their own recognizance. A 16-year-old male also was booked on the same charge and released to his parents.

The victim, Timothy Wayne Mudd, 21, of San Clemente, told police that he and fellow San Clemente resident Jay Brody, 18, were walking on North El Camino Real to a nightclub when occupants of a white Volkswagen yelled out “O.C. Skins.”

When Brody shouted back the name of another skinhead group, the Volkswagen pulled into the parking lot of an Italian restaurant and three males jumped out and attacked the two San Clemente men, Brody told police.

Mudd is recovering at Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo. Brody suffered minor injuries.

Groves, in an interview, said, “We were playing rap music real loud and they hit Mike’s (Bojorquez’s) car with a rock.” When they pulled over, he said, one youth struck him.

Groves said he didn’t see the stabbing and only learned about it as the three were driving away. Groves said it happened in self-defense.

Police confirmed that two knives were found at the scene but were unable to identify who owned them.

All five subjects have told police that they were or are members of a skinhead gang, Downing said.