Two men have been arrested for a Halloween night incident where they shot up an Anaheim, California strip club with an AK-47 after being ejected for refusing to wear facemasks, the Washington Post reports.
Their assault wounded three people inside the club. The pair, Edgar Nava-Ayala, 34, and Daniel Juvenal Ocampo, 22, were arraigned Monday after being arrested last Thursday. They each face three counts of attempted murder. If found guilty, they could receive life sentences. A third man, Juan Jose Acosta-Soto, 20, was charged with three felony counts of assault with an assault weapon and one felony count of shooting into an occupied building.
The three were part of a larger group who went to the Sahara Theater strip club in Anaheim on Halloween night. After refusing staff repeated requests to put on facemasks, in compliance with local ordinances and club rules, the group was ejected from the business.
Nava-Ayala, Ocampo and Acosta-Sota returned to the club at 1:30 a.m. and Nava-Ayala shot 15 rounds into the business, wounding two employees and a customer. Another individual sustained a minor injury in the melee.
“It is nothing short of a miracle that no one was killed,” Anaheim Police Sgt. Shane Carringer told The Post. “There were over 30 people in there and these guys are suspected of indiscriminately firing at innocent bystanders with a high-powered rifle.”