During the investigation by Homicide Unit Detectives, police said Castro told them about a second homicide that had occurred in the area of Autumn Parkway and Coleman Avenue.
Six of the suspects, including a 17-year-old juvenile, were charged with murder, while two others, including an 18-year-old female, were arrested for being accessories after the fact. All are from San Jose.
Arrests were made in 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.
Gustavo Rodriguez, 46, was arrested on a warrant that identified him as the primary suspect in the March 12 fatal double homicide in the 700 block of E. Santa Clara Street.
Joseph Vicencio was charged today with three murder counts, in the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and her two friends in South San Jose early Tuesday. Two witnesses told police he admitted he was the killer.
It’s been a busy – and successful – few weeks for San Jose homicide detectives. In a two-week period from July 30 through Aug. 12, city detectives arrested seven suspects, and cleared four homicide cases.
One of the murder victims had left a chilling message on Facebook one day before his body was found, identifying the man who would be arrested for his murder.
One victim left a chilling Facebook post the day before his body was found next to his friend in a pickup truck. Both men were shot to death, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner.
San Jose detectives had identified Juan Ramirez as the man who fatally stabbed the woman, who died at a local hospital after the attack in the afternoon of March 22, 2013, in the 900 block of North First Street.
A VTA employees was shot and killed Friday evening at the VTA Chaboya Division Yard on the 2200 block of South 7th Street near Costco and the County Fairgrounds.