Juan Enriquez Alcocer

A Juvenile Court judge on Wednesday ordered three juveniles to stand trial as adults for the slaying of 17-year-old Steve Woods, whose head was pierced with a paint roller rod at a San Clemente beach. The hearing before Judge Frank F. Fasel will continue today to determine whether a fourth juvenile should also be tried as an adult. Citing the "totally senseless and gratuitous" nature of the Oct.

A Juvenile Court judge on Wednesday ordered three juveniles to stand trial as adults for the slaying of 17-year-old Steve Woods, whose head was pierced with a paint roller rod at a San Clemente beach. The hearing before Judge Frank F. Fasel will continue today to determine whether a fourth juvenile should also be tried as an adult. Citing the "totally senseless and gratuitous" nature of the Oct.

Municipal Judge Ronald P. Kreber on Thursday ordered a San Clemente man to stand trial on murder and assault charges in the Oct. 15 attack that caused the death of 17-year-old Steve Woods. Juan Enriquez Alcocer, 20, faces one count of murder, 10 counts of felony assault, one felony count of throwing an object at a moving vehicle and a sentencing enhancement alleging gang involvement.

Municipal Judge Ronald P. Kreber on Thursday ordered a San Clemente man to stand trial on murder and assault charges in the Oct. 15 attack that caused the death of 17-year-old Steve Woods. Juan Enriquez Alcocer, 20, faces one count of murder, 10 counts of felony assault, one felony count of throwing an object at a moving vehicle and a sentencing enhancement alleging gang involvement.

The attorney for one of six defendants charged in the attack in which San Clemente High School student Steve Woods was stabbed through the skull with a metal rod said Wednesday the injury was the result of a "terrible freak accident," and there was no intent by her client or his friends to harm anyone.

Four teen-agers and two adults were charged with murder Wednesday, one day after the death of a San Clemente High School senior who was speared through the head with a paint-roller rod. Orange County Supervising Deputy Dist. Atty. Douglas H. Woodsmall, who heads the gang unit, declined to discuss the case in any detail, but said the new charges are supported by the evidence. Steve Woods, 17, was critically injured Oct.

The mother of a San Clemente teen-ager who was killed when he was speared in the head with a paint roller following a beachside altercation Oct. 15, 1993, has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against nine people she said were responsible. Stephen L. Woods, 17, died Nov. 9, 1993, three weeks after two groups of high school friends clashed near San Clemente State Beach.

Two San Clemente men were charged Tuesday with six counts each of felony assault and one count each of throwing a projectile at a moving vehicle in connection with the gruesome spearing of a San Clemente teen-ager Friday. Sheriff's deputies had arrested four San Clemente men and five juveniles Saturday on suspicion of attempted murder in the attack, which has left 17-year-old Stephen Woods near death at Children's Hospital of Orange County.

Two San Clemente men arrested in the spearing death of San Clemente teen-ager Steve Woods pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of murder during a brief hearing in South County Municipal Court. The preliminary hearing originally scheduled Tuesday morning was postponed until next week, giving defense attorneys time to review more than 200 pages of reports handed them by prosecutors in the morning.

Two youths were convicted of second-degree murder and nine other felonies Thursday for a mob attack at an Orange County beach last year that resulted in the death of a teen-ager after a paint roller rod pierced his skull. Prosecutors could not prove that Hector Penuelas, 17, and Julio Perez Bonilla, 18, hurled the paint roller that fatally wounded a San Clemente High School senior. But Superior Court Judge Everett W.

Four teen-agers and two adults were charged with murder Wednesday, one day after the death of a San Clemente High School senior who was speared through the head with a paint-roller rod. Orange County Supervising Deputy Dist. Atty. Douglas H. Woodsmall, who heads the gang unit, declined to discuss the case in any detail, but said the new charges are supported by the evidence. Steve Woods, 17, was critically injured Oct.

The attorney for one of six defendants charged in the attack in which San Clemente High School student Steve Woods was stabbed through the skull with a metal rod said Wednesday the injury was the result of a "terrible freak accident," and there was no intent by her client or his friends to harm anyone.

A judge refused to lower bail for two men who pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges they participated in an assault that ended with a paint-roller rod impaling the skull of a 17-year-old San Clemente High School student. Four additional counts of felony assault were filed against Juan Enriquez Alcocer, 20, and Arturo Villalobos, 20, both of San Clemente, authorities said. Each now faces a total of 10 counts of felony assault and one felony count of throwing a projectile at a moving vehicle.

The prosecutor in the slaying of a San Clemente teen-ager will make the unusual request Monday of seeking not one but two dual-jury murder trials, a procedure that gained recent attention in the Los Angeles trials of Erik and Lyle Menendez. Under the complicated scenario--played out only a handful of times before in Orange County--two separate juries consider the fate of different defendants in the same trial. Deputy Dist. Atty.