A gang member went on a 12-hour crime spree more than two years ago that was so severe it included a robbery and beating that left a UC Berkeley student in a pool of blood, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Terrence Lavar Jarvis, 28, is charged with attempted murder and other counts stemming from the Dec. 28, 2011, attack that left Grant Richman, 18, near death.

Deputy District Attorney Christopher Lawson said in his opening statement that the beating of Richman was just one crime in a handful committed by Jarvis and fellow gang member David Daniel White on Dec. 27 and Dec. 28, 2011.

White pleaded guilty last year to premeditated attempted murder and was sentenced to 22 years and eight months to life in prison.

Richman was attacked at 12:35 a.m., shortly after arriving in the College area of San Diego to spend the night at a friend’s home. Doctors initially thought Richman, of Northridge, wouldn’t survive. Lawson said the defendant left the victim’s “skull mangled.”

“(Terrence) Jarvis did everything he could to murder Grant Richman,” the prosecutor told the jury. “But Grant Richman is a miracle.”

Lawson alleged that Jarvis and White began their crime spree at 1 p.m. on Dec. 27. 2011, when they went with two other men to the Emerald Hills home of fellow gang member Kevin Foster to give him a “disciplinary beating” for refusing to take a gang order.

The prosecutor showed the jury a surveillance video of five men fighting in the street outside of the home of Foster’s grandmother and alleged that one of the men was Jarvis, one was White and another was Foster.

“Foster had a beating coming and he knew it,” Lawson said.

But defense attorney Tom Palmer said that Jarvis and Foster had been friends since they were 8 years old and that there was “no beef between them.”

Lawson alleged that at 11:37 p.m., Jarvis and White robbed Rebecca Smedley at gunpoint outside her apartment in Mountain View. About an hour later, at 12:33 a.m. on Dec. 28., Jarvis and White attempted to rob Alayna Harris while she took the trash out at Woodstock Pizza in Rolando.

Minutes later, Richman was attacked as he got out of his car in front of a friend’s house. The victim was bludgeoned in the head from behind with a double-barreled shotgun as he placed cupcakes on the roof of his car, Lawson said.

The prosecutor played a 911 tape of a neighbor who found Richman at 12:53 a.m.

On the tape, the neighbor can be heard trying to talk to Richman and asking him who had done this to him.

Another voice could be heard moaning in the background, allegedly that of Richman.

Lawson said that at 2:30 a.m., 11 shots were fired at the house in Emerald Hills where the crime spree began.

Jarvis was arrested in San Diego the day after the attack on Richman for allegedly violating his parole and committing domestic violence.

White was arrested Jan. 17, 2012, in Mesa, Ariz., for a probation violation. A week later, police said they had tied the defendants to the attack on Richman.

Lawson told the jury that evidence will show that Jarvis and White used White’s grandmother’s Buick throughout the day and alleged that video evidence shows the Buick at the scene of each crime.

The prosecutor said that Richman’s blood was found in the Buick as well as on Jarvis’ hooded sweatshirt, and that Richman’s credit card was used multiple times near the same areas where Jarvis’ cell phone was being used.

Lawson also showed the jury surveillance footage from a May 11, 2011, robbery of a medical marijuana dispensary that allegedly involved Jarvis. Lawson said DNA evidence from that robbery would help link Jarvis to Richman’s beating.

– City News Service