Overview

• Alameda County prosecutors filed premeditated attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and mayhem charges, with enhancements for knife use and great bodily injury.
• The Aug. 19 attack occurred behind a restaurant on the 5600 block of Thornton Avenue, leaving the man with life-threatening wounds that doctors expect him to survive.
• Police say Luis McLaughlin Jr., 18, admitted he stabbed the first person he saw, and investigators recovered a bloodied backpack, a sweatshirt and a knife sheath tied to the scene.
• A Newark police SWAT team arrested McLaughlin at his home in the 5000 block of Civic Terrace Avenue five days after the incident, and he was booked into Santa Rita Jail.
• Authorities say the assault was broadcast live on Discord and that an arraignment at the East County Hall of Justice in Dublin was scheduled for Wednesday morning.