Authorities Arrest Carjacking Accomplice Linked to Man Who Shot Police Sergeant

Local and federal authorities arrested a Central Valley man in connection with a string of armed robberies and carjackings across the Bay Area and beyond, alleging he is the accomplice of the man who later led law enforcement on a multi-county chase and got into a deadly shootout with police in downtown San José last week.

The San José Police Department and U.S. Marshals said this week Edward Macias of Santa Nella was arrested in Los Banos during the early morning hours of Jan. 22. Jail records show he is being held at Elmwood Correctional Facility in Milpitas.

Authorities said Macias, 29, was with Mohamed Husien, 30, of Davis, when the pair allegedly committed a series of armed robberies on the Peninsula and in the South Bay last week, including robbing cash from a liquor store on McKee Road in San José on Jan. 17. On the same day, the pair stole a red Corvette in Sacramento, police said.

On Jan. 18, Macias and Husien allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven store on Coleman Avenue in San José. In both robberies, authorities say the suspects brandished a knife at store clerks, and in the first robbery, threatened to kill the clerk, while in the second, threatened to shoot the clerk.

U.S. Marshals said Macias dropped Husien off at a Capitol Expressway Auto Mall dealership in South San José on Jan. 21, where Husien is alleged to have stolen a green Corvette at gunpoint.

Husien then drove south to Hollister while being followed by a San José police helicopter, and ultimately was confronted by Hollister police and San Benito County Sheriff’s deputies in two locations, where police said he exchanged gunfire with officers twice.

Husien fled back into San José, allegedly firing at California Highway Patrol officers while on the highway, and ultimately ended up in a shootout with a San José sergeant in the middle of a busy downtown intersection near Notre Dame Avenue and Julian Street.

A shot from Husien hit the sergeant on the side of his head, but the two remained in a close-range shootout. Husien attempted to flee and was shot at by several other officers, and then run over by a police car after collapsing to the ground.

Officers then fired on him many more times, and he was declared dead at the scene, ending a wild and dangerous confrontation that was captured on video by several bystanders.

The U.S. Marshals said local police had “immediately identified Macias as Husien’s accomplice.”

San José Police detectives and members of the department’s Covert Response Unit, along with U.S. Marshals, located Macias at a home in Los Banos and arrested him around 4 a.m., authorities said.

“During the search of his residence, detectives located evidence related to the crimes. The suspect was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail for crimes related to robbery and conspiracy,” police said in a statement on Wednesday.

Police did not share information about Macias or his arrest on the afternoon of Jan. 22, when the department held a press conference hours after he was detained to discuss the string of violent crimes Husien was alleged to have perpetrated, which ended in his death and a sergeant’s serious injury. The sergeant has since been released from the hospital.

A criminal complaint against Macias filed by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office on Monday charges him with two felony counts of second-degree robbery and one count of felony carjacking for the incident in South San José.