There is "credible evidence" that a Hells Angels member wanted in the killing of another member of the biker gang is in the San Jose area, a police spokesman said Sunday. Steve Ruiz was sighted in San Jose sometime late Friday or Saturday, officer Jose Garcia said without providing specifics about the sighting. Garcia said, however, that investigators believe the source was credible. Ruiz, 38, has been the subject of a widespread manhunt since Steve Tausan was shot and killed during a funeral service for Jeffrey "Jethro" Pettigrew at Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose on Oct. 15. Ruiz is a former resident of San Jose and has ties to Gilroy, Campbell and Fremont, Garcia said. "We believe he's in any one of those cities," Garcia said. "If anyone aided him we will arrest those individuals and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law." Garcia said that Ruiz is considered to be armed and dangerous. "We do want this to come to a safe resolution," Garcia said. "We do ask that Steve Ruiz surrender himself." Tausan, 52, was one of 4,000 people attending the funeral for Pettigrew, the president of the Hells Angels San Jose chapter who was slain during a brawl with a rival biker gang in a Nevada casino on Sept. 23. A week after Tausan's killing, police stormed a home in Stockton in search of Ruiz but did not find him. After the futile search, police would not say where they thought he might be Advertisement heading, but noted he had "associates" in Arizona and New York. At the time Ruiz was believed to be driving a pewter-colored or gold 1995 or 1996 GMC Yukon or an older gray Toyota 4-Runner, but police did not know if he was still traveling in one of those vehicles.