Shooting ends with city’s fourth homicide in a week

Attack reported early Monday near Santee Drive continues stretch of deadly gunfire

SAN JOSE >> A deadly shooting early Monday in San Jose continued a violent stretch for the city, which has recorded its fourth homicide in a week.

San Jose police said the latest fatal shooting was reported at 3:04 a.m.; officers found a wounded man at Santee Drive and Dubert Lane. The victim died at the scene.

His identity has not been released pending notification of his next of kin by the coroner’s office, and police have said the motive and circumstances of the shooting are under investigation. No suspects have been arrested or publicly identified.

It marked the city’s 29th homicide of the year — 20 investigated by San Jose police and the nine deaths from the May 26 VTA mass shooting investigated by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.

All but one of the year’s homicides in San Jose have been shootings.

On Sunday, at 2:47 a.m., a person arrived at a local hospital with what police described as a life-threatening gunshot wound, according to police.

Friday evening, officers were called around 7:45 p.m. for gunfire reported in the 4100 block of The Woods Drive.

They found a man who had been shot, and he died at the scene. His name has also not been released pending his formal identification by the coroner’s office.

On Thursday, a 20-yearold man was shot and killed near San Pedro and Hedding streets, in the nerve center of county government operations and a block from the site of the May 26 VTA railyard mass shooting. In this shooting, a 43-year-old man and 34-year-old man were arrested, with sources telling this news organization it appears to have been a gang-related retaliatory attack and police saying the location near the mass shooting cite was a coincidence.

On May 31, just after 1 a.m., 49-year-old San Jose resident Thomas Calamia was fatally shot near Virginia and Prevost streets, a homicide for which no suspects have been publicly identified.

Later that day, an undercover San Jose police officer shot and killed 31-year-old Demetrius Stanley in the city’s second police shooting of the year. Police said the officer opened fire when Stanley pointed a 9mm pistol at the officer, who was in plainclothes and an unmarked car.

But authorities also affirmed that the officer and another officer, who were surveilling Stanley in connection to an armed robbery investigation, did not announce themselves as police. Family members of Stanley and civil-rights activists have contended that Stanley did not know he was confronting a police officer and believed he was protecting his family from dangers outside their home.

Anyone with information about any of the killings from the past week can contact the SJPD homicide unit at 408-277-5283 or leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.