A patrol officer escaped serious injury after being hit by a stolen SUV driven by a 14-year-old. The driver and two other teens were not injured when the officer’s partner shot once into the SUV, which drove away.

The incident occurred on Locke Drive, which is just east of the athletic fields of Andrew HIll High School near the East Capitol Expressway. 

San Jose Police announced the arrests last week of three men in connection with two gang-related stabbings. The victims survived their wounds.

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.

In July 2025, a San Jose police officer shot and killed a heavily armed man dressed in military fatigues after he shot at officers.

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.

The 32-year-old suspect was arrested Sunday without incident after barricading himself in a home, where he had threatened the resident with a machete.

San Jose Gang Investigations Unit detectives used an automated license plate reader to identify the suspect vehicle used to flee the area after the shooting of six people in downtown San Jose after the Feb. 8 Super Bowl in Santa Clara.

The shooting was reported at 11:38am at El Paseo de Saratoga, just north of Campbell, which includes REI and Petco stores and an AMC movie theater.

The lawsuit claimed that the Campbell district, which includes Leigh High School, failed to protect the girl from Shawn Thomas, then a Leigh teacher and Los Gatos High School coach, who is alleged to have impregnated and forced her to have an abortion when she was a 15-year-old high school freshman.

Following an investigation after the initial arrests of 13 suspects in the September strong-arm jewelry store heist, San Jose detectives obtained arrest warrants for two addtional suspects and search warrants for their residences.

The Bay Area Jewish Coalition reports it has received 500 reports of antisemitic incidents at K-12 schools since November 2023.

Former Jr. Sharks coach Kevin Whitmer, facing an expected 25-year prison term, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday.

San Jose police on Sept. 11 arrested a man for carrying a handgun while reportedly chasing an unhoused victim, pushing him to the ground and brandishing a firearm.

Joseph Vicencio was arrested late Wednesday afternoon for the fatal shooting of two women and one man at a residence near Martial Cottle Park.

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.