California - The identity of a shooting victim at a Hells Angels funeral in San Jose remained unconfirmed by San Jose police and the Santa Clara County coroner's office on Sunday morning. The body will be examined by medical examiners on Monday morning, according to a spokesman for the coroner's office.
But multiple sources told this newspaper that the victim of the 12:51 p.m. shooting at Oak Hill Memorial Park on Curtner Avenue was Steve Tausan, a notorious sergeant-at-arms for the Santa Cruz chapter of the club who was suspected of murder in the 1997 beating death of a man at the Pink Poodle strip club.
Despite a heavy police presence at a Hells Angels funeral in San Jose on Saturday, a top bike-club enforcer nicknamed "Mr. 187" after the state penal code number for murder was gunned down in front of stunned mourners.
The victim was pronounced dead at a hospital at 1:44 p.m., according to police.
Saturday's violence appeared to be a confrontation between fellow Hells Angels members that was set off when Tausan punched a fellow biker, and the biker retaliated by shooting him.