Hells Angel Found Guilty for Vicious OB Stabbing and Assaults
OB RAG AAPRIL 25, 2025 OCEAN BEACH CALIFORNIA
Hells Angel Found Guilty for Vicious OB Stabbing and Assaults
A San Diego jury on Friday convicted a local Hells Angel of attempted murder for stabbing a Black man on Newport Avenue two years ago.
Troy Scholder was also found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, and a separate charge of felony assault against another victim. The stabbing and assaults occurred on June 6, 2023.
The jury also agreed with prosecutor Miriam Hemming’s argument that Scholder committed a hate crime in those attacks.
Scholder now faces another hearing to determine if he committed those crimes for the benefit of a gang.
That hearing is scheduled for May 15. The decision on that gang enhancement will be made by Judge Frank Devaney, not by a jury.
Scholder faces 30 years to life on the attempted murder conviction.
His sentencing is scheduled for June 6. He has been held in county jail without bail since his arrest.
The stabbing was the culmination of a dispute over comments the victim made to the girlfriend of a Hells Angels’ associate outside a Newport Avenue bar. According to the prosecutor, the victim and two of his friends — all of them Black males — had left the bar and were walking down Newport when a group of bikers ran after them. One victim was beaten and another was stabbed. The third man managed to outrun his assailants.
The prosecutor said Scholder’s victim came literally “within an inch of his life” when the biker stabbed him in the right chest, severing an artery and damaging his lung.
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