{"id":144651,"date":"2026-01-22T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144651\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:44:11","slug":"shootout-leaves-armed-carjacking-suspect-dead-and-sergeant-hurt-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144651\/","title":{"rendered":"Shootout Leaves Armed Carjacking Suspect Dead and Sergeant Hurt in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A police sergeant was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SJPD_PIO\/status\/2014149894215528905\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shot;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shot<\/a> and a suspect killed after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/officer-shot-san-jose-following-armed-carjacking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:chase;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">chase<\/a> across multiple counties that ended in San Jose on Wednesday, January 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The San Jose Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SJPD_PIO\/status\/2014130768591954088\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> the incident was related to an armed carjacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/officer-shot-san-jose-following-armed-carjacking\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:local news;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">local news<\/a>, police began pursuing the suspect after he stole a car at gunpoint, firing at officers at several points during the chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was killed in a shootout with police off Highway 87 in San Jose, and a wounded police sergeant was in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SJPD_PIO\/status\/2014149894215528905\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:stable but critical;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">stable but critical<\/a> condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage posted by @leoinbayarea shows police in the area. Credit: @leoinbayarea via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police sergeant was shot and a suspect killed after a chase across multiple counties that ended in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[72298,88,90,89,2125],"class_list":["post-144651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-police-sergeant","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}