NEWARK — A young man with a pending gun case has been charged with shooting members of local Norteño subsets, court records show.

Xavier Medina, 20, of Oakland, was charged with two counts of attempted murder and multiple shooting counts, according to court records. He is being held without bail and is next due in court on May 16 to enter a plea, records show.

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Medina was out on $7,000 bail in a pending gun case when he was arrested earlier this month, records show. He is charged with shootings in December and February, targeting alleged members of Norteño subsets based in Newark. But police say he is also a suspect in a shooting that targeted the mother of his child, whom he complained to his imprisoned father of having him “set up,” according to court records.

Authorities say that Medina’s recorded prison calls with his dad are among the most incriminating evidence. In them, Medina allegedly made subtle references to having committed shootings, including telling his father, “I didn’t start it,” and later stating, “I don’t want to be in the mix but I’m not no punk. That’s what I’m not.”

Medina mentioned that his “granny’s” home was shot up earlier in at least one of the calls, authorities said. Police later searched his phone and found a note containing writings referencing shooting 15 times and sending a man to the hospital, according to court records.

Police raided Medina’s home in January in connection with the December shooting of a suspected gang member who was struck in the leg, and with shooting his ex’s home, in an instance where no one was struck. In a subsequent police interview, he allegedly admitted to shooting the gang member, who was identified by police as one of suspects in a massive East Bay auto theft ring, court records show.

After being charged with guns found during a raid of his home last January, Medina posted bail, was released from jail, and committed another shooting in late February, prosecutors said. In another conversation with his father, Medina allegedly complained that the man he allegedly targeted in February, a 20-year-old East Bay and Merced County resident, had fled the area at his mother’s urging out of fear that the victim “was gonna pass away” if Medina found him.

In March, the man was killed in a head-on collision in Merced County, authorities said. Medina allegedly recounted all this to his father and said that the man’s loved ones were angry about it.

“And now they’re putting the blame on me, bruh,” he allegedly told his father. “So they came here looking for me.”