Couple arrested after man is shot at during clash

A woman was arrested on suspicion of shooting at her boyfriend during a fight in their Willow Glen home early Saturday in what police described as a domestic violence incident.

But the arrest was anything but immediate, as she refused to leave the home for nearly eight hours before she surrendered and was taken into custody. The man she was fighting with also was arrested, according to San Jose police.

Officers were called around 2:45 a.m. Saturday to a home in the 1000 block of Meridian Avenue, after someone called 911 to report that they heard a gunshot.

Responding officers found a man, uninjured, outside the home.

He “stated he was in an argument with his girlfriend when she fired one shot at him,” police said in a statement.

Police surrounded the home and worked for several hours to get the woman to leave. She surrendered around 10:10 a.m. and was expected to be booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence and other crimes.

The man she is accused of shooting at also was expected to be booked on suspicion of domestic violence, police said. Neither of the couple’s identities were released by authorities.

Police, elected officials and survivor advocates are on heightened alert on the effects that the COVID-19 pandemic could have on domestic and family violence, given that issues like social isolation and financial insecurity, already deemed primary factors in keeping people from leaving their abusers, are worsened by the economic crisis and shelter-in-place orders.