More than a dozen Hells Angels sentenced in OB beating, stabbing

Several people connected to the San Diego County chapter of the Hells Angels have been sentenced for their roles in a hate-related 2023 stabbing.

Thirteen defendants pleaded guilty to various charges and have been sentenced to state prison, county jail or probation terms. That’s in addition to the June sentencing of the lead defendant, Troy Andrew Scholder.

The attack on three young Black men in Ocean Beach, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said, left two of them badly injured.

The prosecution centered around the June 6, 2023, attack on three men, ages 19, 20 and 21, who were chased by the defendants on Newport Avenue after one of them apparently spoke to a Hells Angels member’s girlfriend.

One of the victims fled, but the other two were severely beaten by numerous defendants, who hurled racial slurs and told the victims they didn’t belong in that neighborhood.

While one of the victims was on the ground, Scholder, who was described by prosecutors as a longtime leader of the motorcycle gang, pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the chest.

During Scholder’s trial, Deputy District Attorney Miriam Hemming said the knife fractured the victim’s sternum, pierced his lung and severed an artery, nearly causing him to bleed out.

After the stabbing, other co-defendants spirited Scholder from the crime scene to the gang’s clubhouse in El Cajon, prosecutors said. He and the co-defendants were arrested nearly three months later.

Scholder was convicted by a San Diego jury of attempted murder and other charges and was sentenced in June to 21 years to life in state prison. .