Overview
- Police identified the suspect as 30-year-old Marc Joseph Vigo Buada and arrested him Monday in connection with the Westlake Shopping Center assault.
- Prosecutors filed felony counts including attempted carjacking, assault likely to produce great bodily injury, and battery causing serious bodily injury.
- Bail was set at $400,000, and the defendant remains in custody pending a 1:30 p.m. Tuesday arraignment in San Mateo County.
- Investigators say surveillance video and recovered evidence tied Buada to the restaurant attack and to a separate incident where a driver was punched after an attempt to open an occupied car door.
- The victim, 31-year-old Nicole Malouf, suffered a fractured orbital bone and remains hospitalized, and her family launched a verified GoFundMe because she lacks health insurance.