“It was a battle for that sergeant’s life, unfolding in the middle of our city, in broad daylight, with members of the public in the crossfire.”
— San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph, on a downtown shootout that killed a 30-year-old alleged gunman suspected in a series of armed robberies, carjackings and multiple exchanges of gunfire with law enforcement including a grazing head shot to a city sergeant who was hospitalized with a skull fracture.