Mudcheck with extreme prejudice at a Chris Stapleton concert

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Mountain View police on Tuesday arrested five men with ties to the Hells Angels, in connection with two assaults at a concert back in June-- one which resulted in the death of a man and the other which seriously injured an off-duty police officer.

The two attacks happened on June 19 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre where the Chris Stapleton concert was being held.

Police said that night, officers responded to reports of a man who was found to be unresponsive near a restaurant at the Shoreline.

Emergency crews rushed him to a hospital where he died about a week later, according to police. They identified the victim as 41-year-old Juan Gonzalez of Bakersfield. Police said the Santa Clara County coroner later determined the cause of death as blunt force trauma.

It was also during the night of the concert that investigators said another man, an off-duty police officer, was assaulted in a separate incident.

The officer was "brutally assaulted by a group of men near a collection of portable restrooms," the police said in a press release. The men were seen walking away from the area after the attack, according to police.

Months of investigations involving local and federal law enforcement partners led them to the conclusion that the suspects all knew one another and appeared to be associated with the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club.

Investigators did not say what led to the assaults, but police told KTVU it did not appear that the suspects knew the victims.

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