Two teens suspected of murdering CA boy and wounding another were all classmates
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In this photo taken Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Marin County Sheriff and Novato police members gather at a command post to form a massive manhunt following at attack on two students in Novato, Calif. Attackers shot two students near a San Francisco Bay Area high school, killing one and sending another to a hospital in an incident that prompted the closing of the campus, authorities said Thursday. Both victims were students at Novato High School. (Robert Tong/Marin Independent Journal via AP) ((c) Marin Independent Journal)
Two teenagers arrested in the slaying of a Northern California high school student and the wounding of another attended the same school as the victims, authorities said Friday.
The Marin County Sheriff's Office said the 17-year-old suspects deputies detained during raids on a pair of homes on Thursday were enrolled at Novato High School, just like the slain student who was shot in the head and stabbed on a hiking trail that borders a country club community.
The sheriff's office identified the slain boy Friday as Edwin Josue Ramirez Guerra, 17, of San Rafael.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sheriff's officials aren't naming the suspects because they are juveniles, Lt. Doug Pittman said. They also haven't revealed a motive for the attack.
Investigators are looking for another Novato High student who was seen leaving the scene of Wednesday's violence and also is considered a suspect.
The surviving victim was shot in the chest but managed to call 911 from the trail. He is in stable condition, Pittman said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Novato is about 29 miles north of San Francisco and has increasingly served as a suburb for families priced out of the city or looking for more space.
The high school enrolls about 1,300 students in grades 9-12 and has a student population that is 53 percent white, 34 percent Hispanic, 4 percent Asian and 3 percent African American. Although the median household income in Novato approaches $80,000, 35 percent of the students at Novato High are considered socioeconomically disadvantaged.
Novato Police Capt. Jamie Knox told the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday (http://bit.ly/1U1SNsa ) that investigators are exploring whether the hiking trail attack may be linked to a female student's allegation that a male classmate had sexually assaulted her near campus on May 18.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"The homicide occurred in the sheriff department's jurisdiction, Knox said. "They are working with our detectives to try to put all the pieces together."