A San Jose man released after an arrest for stalking and threatening his estranged wife in March returned to her home last week and stabbed her to death, prosecutors said.
Pablo Aguileramora, 46, was already facing charges that he had stalked his victim, slashed her tires and placed a tracker in her car before the June 11 slaying. He had been released while those charges were pending when he committed the murder, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
Four days later, on June 15, police arrested another San Jose man, Shede Mao, 55, after he used a machete to kill his estranged wife.
On June 8, a man shot and seriously injured a Kaiser Permanente employee, then shot and killed himself.
The murders were the third and fourth domestic violence homicides so far this year in San Jose. There were five domestic violence murders in Santa Clara County during all of 2025.
“I am heartbroken, but sadness will never stop us from working with victims to get them and their children to safety,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement “Sadness will never stop us from making sure violent abusers face the strictest justice.”
Nationally, while the numbers of most types of homicides have dramatically dropped, domestic violence deaths have remained at historically high levels.
On June 15, police found a 49-year-old woman dead after a friend of Mao told police that he had sent him a text that his wife “was all beat up” along with a photograph of her bloody body.
Just before midnight on June 11, the San Jose Police Department received a 911 call from a witness that a woman living at an apartment complex on Descanso Drive had been stabbed.
Police found the 45-year-old victim suffering from multiple stab wounds. Officers applied tourniquets and attempted first aid. Officers also located the wounded suspect, Aguileramora.
Both the victim and suspect were brought to the hospital. Before the victim died, she told investigators that Aguileramora was her attacker. The suspect, who also threatened the witness, is in custody.
On March 18, Aguileramora was arrested for stalking the victim, showing up at her work, slashing her car tires, implanting three electronic trackers in her car, and sending her more than 100 texts and voicemails. He tried to get a job at the company where she worked. An Emergency Protection Order was granted and served. Less than three months later, the victim was dead.
On June 15, SJPD responded to a Snell Avenue home to find Mao walking out. Inside they found his wife, dead in a blood-spattered room. A machete was found near the body. Mao was arrested.
Investigators believe the June 8 shooting at the Kaiser medical office, in which a Watsonville man died, and a woman was left in critical condition, was a murder-suicide attempt with evidence that the motive also was domestic violence-related.
