SAN JOSE — Authorities have announced the arrest of an alleged accomplice to the carjacking and robbery suspect who shot and wounded a San Jose police sergeant before he was killed last week during a violent downtown clash that ended a multi-county chase that included two earlier police gunfights.
Edward Isaiah Macias, 29, of Santa Nella, has been arrested and charged with two armed robberies and a carjacking in San Jose that preceded a Jan. 21, 2026 police chase in which his alleged accomplice Mohamed Husien led authorities on a chase to Hollister where Husien shot at police officers in two confrontations before he returned to San Jose and wounded a police sergeant before he was killed in a downtown gunfight. (San Jose Police Dept.)
Edward Isaiah Macias, 29, of Santa Nella, was taken into custody in Los Banos in the early morning hours of Jan. 22, according to the U.S. Marshals Service, which first publicly disclosed the arrest Tuesday.
Macias was arrested about 12 hours after Mohamed Husien, a 30-year Davis resident, was killed in the afternoon shootout with police in San Jose. Authorities said that Macias aided Husien in the carjacking at the auto dealership where the two-hour crime spree began; he is not accused of taking part in the gun battle that ended in Husien’s death near the intersection of Notre Dame Avenue and West Julian Street.
The existence of an accomplice to Husien was not mentioned at an afternoon news conference held more than 10 hours after Macias’ arrest. At that time, officials from the San Jose Police Department described the injury to the sergeant and how officers subsequently shot, then ran over Husien to end his rampage.
With no public acknowledgment by authorities, Macias was charged Friday and arraigned Monday on allegations he participated in a carjacking and robberies in San Jose that preceded the Jan. 21 police chase that ended with Husien’s death. He is being held without bail in the Elmwood men’s jail in Milpitas.
According to the marshals service, SJPD detectives “immediately identified Macias as Husien’s accomplice who dropped him off at the San Jose car dealership. Sacramento police had identified Macias and Husien as the two suspects who attempted to carjack another dealership at gunpoint three days earlier.”
Suspect Mohamed Husien was shot and killed after committing a couple armed carjackings in San Jose and Hollister and shooting a Sergeant during an attempted third carjacking. (Courtesy San Jose Police Department)
That generally lines up with the public police account of the crime spree linked to Husien, a felon who police say stole a red Chevrolet Corvette in Sacramento on Jan. 17.
According to San Jose police, Husien then committed robberies at an unspecified minimart and at a San Jose liquor store on McKee Road, the latter allegedly at knifepoint.
The following day, he was suspected of additional robberies on the Peninsula and at a 7-Eleven on Coleman Avenue in San Jose. Police said in the second instance, Husien and Macias brandished a knife at a clerk and threatened to shoot him.
On Jan. 21, Husien was spotted in the stolen Corvette in San Jose, but police lost track of him and later found the car abandoned. Around 2 p.m. that day, authorities said Husien stole a green Corvette at gunpoint from a car lot on Capitol Expressway and was followed by a police helicopter as he drove to Hollister.
After the shootouts with police and deputies in Hollister, he commandeered another car at gunpoint and drove back to San Jose — reportedly firing at California Highway Patrol officers along the way — before crashing into another vehicle near Notre Dame Avenue and West Julian Street.
As San Jose police and other law enforcement agencies converged on the site, authorities say Husien rushed a police sergeant who had just arrived and opened fire, touching off a close-range gunfight in which the sergeant was grazed in the head by a bullet. Husien briefly got into the sergeant’s police SUV before running off as dozens of gunshots were fired.
Bystander video shows Husien falling to the ground, and moments later being driven over by a police SUV, which was followed by another volley of police gunfire. Husien was pronounced dead at the scene; the wounded sergeant underwent surgery for a skull fracture and was released the next day.
The criminal complaint against Macias charges him with the two San Jose robberies, and also with carjacking in connection with the Corvette theft in San Jose. The complaint alleges he took a vehicle “in the possession of (a) worker at Capitol Chevrolet … by means of force and fear.”
On the night of the shooting, the SJPD Covert Response Unit, joined by the marshals service, tracked Macias to a home in Los Banos. The team of officers monitored the home while awaiting a search warrant, and around 4 a.m. Jan. 22, they took Macias into custody.
Anyone with information for investigators regarding the San Jose robberies can contact 408-277-4166 or email Detective Clifford Grodin at 4591@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Katalina Torres at 4946@sanjoseca.gov. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org.