STATEMENT OF FACTS
SJPD #1 6?022-0 73 0
Detective Sergeant Paul Hamblin #3 6 00
Detective J. Tanner #3 733

On 01f22f 16 at 1820 hours, SJPD patrol of?cers responded to a suspicious
circumstance call at the GP Sports, 2020 Camden Ave, San Jose. Employee, Kyle
Myrick, had reportedly gone missing and a crime scene was located in an adjacent
building. SJPD Homicide Detectives and the Crime Scene Unit responded to the scene
and learned the following information.

At approximately 1300 hours, witness Peter Diaz gave Suspect Steve Hlebo the
assignment of assembling two in the lot behind the store. At approximately 1400
hours, Diaz sent victim Kyle Myrick out back to assist Suspect Hlebo. At approximately
1500 hours, Diaz walked to the rear lot to check on the progress of Hlebo and Myrick.
Diaz noticed that the gate that led to the lot was locked, which was highly unusual. The
only two people in the back yard area were Hlebo and Myrick. Suspect Hlebo had to
open the gate for Diaz and when Diaz entered the rear lot, he noticed that Myrick was not
in sight. Diaz asked Suspect Hlebo where Myrick was. Hlebo said he didn?t know.

Diaz became concerned for Myrick?s welfare. Diaz returned to the service ?oor.
At approximately 1700 hours, Diaz, who was beginning to worry about Myrick, returned
to the rear lot. Again, the gate to that lot was locked and, again, Suspect Hlebo opened it.
Diaz entered the lot and again was unable to ?nd Victim Myrick. This time, Diaz noticed
that suspect Hlebo?s personal vehicle, a white 2002 GMC Sierra pickup, was
backed up to the rear door of a vacant building on the store grounds. Diaz stated that the
building was virtually never used by store personnel because the interior had been badly
burned in a ?re a year and a half earlier. Diaz also stated that no store personnel ever
brought their personal vehicles into that rear lot because it was used solely for storing
merchandise. Diaz asked Suspect Hlebo what his pickup was doing there and Suspect
Hlebo gave him a nonsensical answer.

Diaz suggested that SuSpect Hlebo and a few other employees check the vacant
building with the burned out interior for Victim Myrick. Suspect Hlebo told Diaz that he

did not want to go into that building because there were ?ghosts in there.? At

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approximately 1800 hours (which was closing time for the store), while Diaz and several
other store employees were actively searching for Victim Myrick, Suspect Hlebo logged
out and left the store. A few minutes later, Diaz and another employee entered the vacant
building (where Hlebo?s vehicle had been seen backed up to the entrance) with
?ashlights. In a very small storage room (approximately they discovered a great
deal of fresh blood on the walls and ?oor and contacted police.

An inspection of the crime scene where the blood was found revealed that there
was arterial spray and castoff on the walls, and aspirated blood with air bubbles on a
stack of boxes in one corner. There were also transfer stains on the ?oor with a
directionality leading from the blood stains to the door, ending at the threshold of the
back door to the building. It appeared as if someone had been dragged from the crime
scene to the location where Hlebo?s vehicle had been seen parked. There was also a
severed human ear lying in a pool of blood on the ?oor.

Based on the above information, investigators believed that Steve Hlebo had
violently assaulted victim Kyle Myrick and removed him from the scene in his vehicle.
We believed that although a violent crime scene, that it was possible that Myrick was still
alive and in need of immediate medical assistance and rescue. At approximately 2330
hours, of?cers from the SJPD Covert Response Unit surrounded Hlebo?s residence, 715
Los Ninos Way, Los Altos, and watched it surreptitiously. No one was able to reach
Myrick. At approximately 0205 hours, Suspect Hlebo arrived at the residence in his
pickup. About 0300 hours, based on the totality of the circumstances, and the fear that
Myrick was potentially still alive and in need of medical assistance, the Covert Response
Unit was directed to make entry into the residence in an attempt to locate and rescue
Myrick. At approximately 0400 hours, the house was secured and suspect Steve Hlebo
had been arrested. Myrick was not located. At approximately, 0531 hours, Superior
Court Judge Helen Williams signed a search warrant for Hlebo?s residence, vehicle and
to obtain a DNA sample from him. A large amount of blood was found in the cab of the


Homicide Detectives (under Miranda) interviewed Hlebo. He claimed that he had
been involved in a physical ?ght with victim. Hlebo later told a family member that he
had killed Myrick and disposed of his body in the ocean.

Statement of Facts 

I believe that Steve Hlebo is responsible for the murder of Kyle Myrick.

 

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