Youth Shot in Attempted Robbery at Motel

A 16-year-old boy was shot early Saturday by an innkeeper during a failed robbery attempt at an Anaheim motel. The teen-ager and an alleged accomplice were arrested a short time later, police said.

The wounded youth was not identified.

Police arrested Alvaro Taboada Jurive, a 21-year-old unemployed laborer from Anaheim, on suspicion of commercial robbery.

According to Sgt. Greg Mattis, police were summoned to the Admirals Cove Motel in the 100 block of West Ball Road at 2:17 a.m. Someone reported shots being fired into the motel, Mattis said in a prepared statement.

Officers who arrived at the motel were told--apparently through interviews with the innkeeper or witnesses--that motel manager Jim Chung, 48, of Anaheim had exchanged gunfire with two robbers, who fled west on Ball Road after failing to steal any money.

Mattis was patrolling that area and stopped a car in which the youth and Jurive were traveling on Cerritos Avenue. Chung subsequently identified the pair as his assailants, according to police. A sawed-off rifle allegedly used by the suspects was found in the car.

Chung could not be reached for comment. Officer John Oldroyd said he did not know the youth’s name or what type of weapon with which he was wounded.

Officials at UCI Medical Center in Orange, where the teen-ager apparently was taken for treatment, declined to comment on his condition.