Man claiming to have HIV puts his blood on people

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Police say Loya-Leyva, 26, was walking through the lot when he allegedly opened the back passenger door of a woman’s car. Investigators said he walked away but then punched through a window, shattering the glass and cutting his upper arm. He tried to pull the woman out of the car while threatening to kill her, according to court documents.

From there, according to police, Loya-Leyva went to Starbucks. Police say Loya-Leyva knowingly and intentionally flicked blood onto a person, "claiming to have HIV.” Then, Loya-Leyva walked into Starbucks, where investigators say he began to flick blood on all the merchandise and counter. Loya-Leyva then intentionally flicked blood into the face and on the bodies of two Starbucks employees and continued to claim he had HIV.

While detained, Loya-Leyva allegedly rubbed blood on an officer and flicked more blood toward another officer, while again claiming he had HIV and hoped the officers contracted it, according to court documents. Loya-Leyva also made comments he wanted the officers to die.

Loya-Leyva was taken back to Abrazo so his cut could be treated. Police say he threatened to kill nurses and doctors and called a Black doctor a racial slur “multiple times.”

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