Crime & Safety
South Bay Homicide Suspect In Custody After Standoff
A standoff ensued overnight and into Thursday morning in San Jose, with police evacuating surrounding homes.
SAN JOSE, CA — A suspect is in custody Thursday morning after barricading himself inside a home in San Jose following a fatal shooting Wednesday, police said.
Officers had responded at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday to a report of a shooting in the 900 block of North Fourth Street, where a man had life-threatening injuries. He later died at the hospital and is San Jose's 12th homicide victim in 2021, police said Thursday.
Officers located the suspect, who barricaded himself inside a residence. A standoff ensued overnight and into Thursday morning, with police evacuating surrounding homes.
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Shortly after 8:45 a.m. Thursday, San Jose police wrote on Twitter that the suspect had been taken into custody and had a self-inflicted gunshot wound that is life-threatening.
No other details about the suspect or victim were immediately available from police.
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