Nicholas Hosteter, 25, is not the first alleged felon to be caught after the circulation of a photo. He is one of the few, however, who can claim that he posed for a wanted picture taken by one of his own victims.
Hosteter was arrested in connection to the two attacks on elderly men, according to the Campbell Police Department.
On May 4, Hosteter allegedly punched a victim on San Tomas Aquino Road and the victim pulled out his cellphone to take a picture of his attacker. To his surprise, Hosteter stopped and posed for the picture. The police then used it to capture him.
The second random attack involved a 75-year-old man taking a walk. He was punched in the face. The victim and his family returned to the scene shortly afterward to look for surveillance cameras. They then spotted Hosteter who allegedly tried to fight the family and then left the area.
He is now facing two counts of elder abuse and battery of an officer (due to kicking one of the arresting officers).
Obviously, a psychiatric evaluation should be one of the first things ordered by the court.
Prisons aren’t filled with brilliant men. There’s been several examples of videos showing ultra violent incidents against the elderly, and other vulnerable people, committed by relatively young men and women. It’s like a scene from A Clockwork Orange.
Send the young man to rural Wyoming where I live. We’re a kind bunch of people willing to provide attitude adjustments at no cost.
You’re on to something there buddy. It’s such a waste. I hate when young men and women, but especially young men, waste their lives stuck in the system. Most young men do dumb things for no good reason. When people without money are arrested for even petty offenses are usually given probation with conditions like don’t make anymore mistakes. Well, young men are mistake factories. Send those guys to Wyoming, my brother and sister were born near Casper. In my opinion, however, the man’s age, the nature and frequency of the crimes he allegedly committed, and his actions afterwards disqualify the 25-year old from your kind offer. Maybe a stint in the army would help.
Thank God this arrest was made AFTER the California Democratic Party Primary! And hopefully, ‘lil Nicholas Hosteter will still be able to vote for Joe Biden in November!!
Good luck trying to locate a qualified, competent, ethical clinical psychologist in California.
Who cares about those criteria? The main concern is that the reality of DEI has been achieved!
Is that even the same person ?
https://twitter.com/henrykleeKTVU/status/1794587763209347086
Maybe after his crime spree on the 4th of May he lost a bunch of weight and turned darker.
On the other hand I wouldn’t put it past the entire media putting out FAKE vid of the guy standing with headphones and a cord link under his sweater
Sounds to me like he learned from our government.
How many wars are we currently engaged in across the globe ?
The answer is : It is so many. NONE OF US KNOW THE NUMBER.
My condolences to all who have ever served or know anyone who has.
When the state fails its obligation to safely house the dangerously insane, city streets and parents’ homes become ersatz asylums. Unrestrained, these lunatics, who regularly require police intervention and temporary detention, represent a menace to strangers but a lethal threat to parents. Loving, overwrought parents, living under a persistent threat of harm, are murdered by them at a rate of about six a week.
This an example of extreme Trump Derangement Syndrome aka TDS. The lefty sees President Trump’s popularity and is lashing out or screaming in the woods. He is hoping for brownie points from the DNC.
‘Elder abuse’? What is that sheet? How about assault, period? This has all gone waaaay too far. Disgusting, and CA was one of the first states, thanks to Soros DAs, to recategorize crimes and ditch enhancements; that kid’ll be home in time for supper.
And as an aside, I’m sorry to report that, even if others don’t engage in violence, that kid’s *mentality* is far too common in so many in that cohort. One more lost generation and I don’t know that humanity writ large will be *able* to reverse course.
The coming election is everything, sink or swim, and understand that enough damage has been done in such a short time the ‘swimming’ is not going to be fun. But we must.
He’s 25 years old. He’s NOT a kid.
@Greg
Forgive the tone, but you have clearly not spent a meaningful amount of time around not related to you, modern 25 year-olds (this actually applies to an extent to most under 40 these days). 🙄 I wish it were cynicism to say it.
@Greg
Oh, and PS – by no means am I implying that should mean leniency; on the contrary, I really, really wish we’d start throwing the book at each and every one of them, and hard. If we do not get law enforcement back on track, and soon – it’s going to be a sheet storm beyond imagination. This is all getting worse, not better. 🤷🏻♂️
Don’t you understand. We don’t need more police to control a man such as this we just need more confrontation control officers on the scene to ask Nicholas not to be a bad boy. Tip toe through the Tulips through the garden oh ho oh ho. Tip toe through the Tulips with meeee.
When I see a story such as this it reminds me of the film No Country for Old Men. The villain in the story was just who he was. There was no accounting for it. It was just understood to be the way things are and it just had to be taken care of. Two victims said “You don’t have to do this.” just before they were killed. It just fell on deaf ears. After killing a woman the murderer walked out of the house and noticing that there was some blood on his boot he calmly rubbed it against his pants. The film calls for facing the reality of things. The Sheriff played by Tommy Lee Jones is not surprised by any of it. He recognized that it just comes with the job. Like crushing a scorpion in your house so that your children will not be stung. Like Trump says, a snake is just going to do what a snake does.
Well, we could imprison a lot more people, or we could start executing a lot more people. I vote that we do the latter first. For one thing, there is little chance of rehabilitation in prison, because the inmates run the place. People who go into prison are abused and set upon by the other prisoners, and usually come out as far worse people than when they went in.
But, as a nation, we lack the guts, the will, and the desire to elect people who will toss out the judges who would stand in the way of reforming things. Maybe when China takes us over, we can get our nation cleaned up.
I agree, the problem is the cops lie, the lawyers lie, the judges lie, the prosecutors lie, and made for TV courtroom dramas show many cases where all those crimes are on big display, so we can’t have proper punishment.
To imagine our system can distinguish fairly between caught red handed and suspected by vague circumstances is a fantasy.
Even if we tried to make some law about it so those caught dead to rights paid, it would be so corrupt by the time implementation came it would probably go in the opposite direction.
So although I agree we should be executing, and I mean easily tens of thousands a year, quickly, within weeks of convictions, we just can’t do it, because the whole system is such a stinking pile of fraud and lies half the executions would be personal plots by power hungry monsters in the system.
Even the lab tests for DNA are totally corrupt. Now we’re almost to the point that any video from cams can be made up from thin air, so that evidence is now suspect, especially in big cities where the ability to make the edits on the fly exist.
Reading that, I nearly thought it was a Bee article.
But then when I realized it happened in CA, makes sense in a CA way.
Psychiatry is of no help in cases of serial criminality. These people are not “mentally ill” as we think of mental illness. There is often something wrong in their brains but classic psychiatry is of no help in diagnosing them or predicting their future activities. John Douglas, who wrote MINDHUNTER and other books on serial killers and criminals, and helped set up the FBI’s serial crime unit, is quite vociferous that psychiatrist are not helpful with these people. There are forensic psychiatrists who train specifically for this type of criminality and are much more effective in dealing with them and predicting there future behavior.
Oh, and this particular criminal is stupid also. That does no require a psychiatrist to figure that out.
“. . . classic psychiatry is of no help in diagnosing them or predicting their future activities.”
I completely disagree.
See the magisterial _Inside the Criminal Mind_, by Dr. Stanton Samenow.
To SAM-Is your opinion based on personal experience of treating people with and without mental illness? I have 46 years of treating people, both criminals and mentally ill as well as normal people with medical illnesses and so I quoted Mr Douglas because his experience and conclusions mirrors my own thoughts and he is as good an authority as you will find on serial criminality, serial killers, as well as confirmation bias in police departments and miscarriages of justice as well. In this particular area I do believe the FBI has a greater case load and understanding than the usual psychiatrist. Also remember Psychiatrists have the highest suicide rate in the medical profession, year by year. One must be highly skeptical of the efficacy of their predictive value in criminals and serial offenders.
“Is your opinion based on personal experience of treating people with and without mental illness?”
Your beef is with Samenow, not with me.
I see now that you’re making a distinction between just theory (“classic psychiatry”) and those with clinical experience (which includes Samenow, in spades).
“Psychiatrists have the highest suicide rate . . .”
Which, if true, has zero bearing on the work or arguments of any particular psychiatrist. But it is a good example of the association fallacy.
What could one expect it’s California. Please Californians stay right where you are, you’ve created the environment you live in don’t bring it to red states.
Hold on now! It’s not our fault. We Californians have the government the ballot harvesters decided we deserve.
There are no longer consequences. Youth incarceration is down to a fraction of what it was ten years ago. Are there less delinquents? No. Criminal behavior is rewarded with a catch and release. The thugs are back on the street in a matter of hours. Thank you George Soros. Thank you DEI. Thank you radical leftists. Thank you self serving politicians who care nothing for those who elected them.
If the citizen try’s to defend themself, woe to them if the hurt the thug. The thug will sue.
The government goes out of its way to avoid displaying the Ten Commandments: Do not kill; Do not steal; Do not tell lies; Do not covet what is not yours; Honor your elders, etc.
Children are taught a bizarre tangle of fantasy about how life, the complex and intricate world we live in just occurred by random chance. Life is devalued and expendable. Video games and movies kill more life in an hour than what takes place in a war.
What do you expect? We are in deep excrement if this is allowed to continue.
Not crazy, just freaking stupid.
The concept that criminals who commit heinous acts must be mentally ill is wrong, and reflects normal people’s inability to accept the existence of evil. Many heinous criminals are mentally healthy, and simply evil. They’re not “crazy”, and they’re not demon-posessed either – an earlier excuse for heinous criminality.
In TN, poor Nick would be posing with holes throughout his body.
No psychiatric evaluation needed. Sounds about right for California.
“Elder abuse”? How about attempted homicide or at least assault and battery. Whatever. He’ll be out on the street again in minutes.