{"id":144948,"date":"2026-01-22T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:30:21","slug":"san-jose-officer-injured-armed-carjacking-suspect-dead-following-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144948\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose officer injured, armed carjacking suspect dead following shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wild video shows a man wanted for a series of California car thefts dodging gunfire and getting mowed down by police after attempting to steal a cop car during a police chase that spanned 50 miles and ended with the suspect dead.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38254176\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/crop-38254163.jpg\" alt=\"An aerial view of a busy street with several police vehicles and officers on foot, seemingly involved in a shootout or chase.\" class=\"wp-image-38254176\"  \/>A carjacking suspect was killed Wednesday, and an SJPD sergeant was injured after a chase that spanned several South Bay cities.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38254167\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/carjacking-suspect-killed-wednesday-sjpd-119447170.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a police car with an open door and a person on the ground next to it.\" class=\"wp-image-38254167\"  \/>Video shows a chaotic scene in downtown San Jose Wednesday afternoon as the series of events came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The chaos began when the suspect stole a vehicle from a San Jose car dealership and drove south toward Hollister, leading officers from the city and the San Benito County Sheriff\u2019s Office to pursue him.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then stole another vehicle in Hollister and tried return to San Jose, leading officers on a high-speed chase that finally ended near Highway 87 at Notre Dame Avenue,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/large-police-presence-downtown-san-jose-reported-chase\/18445356\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC7 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, multiple gunshots ring out as the suspect runs near a parking area and appears to collapse. Moments later, a police car runs him over while officers continue to fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect died during the confrontation after attempting to steal a cop car. Officials have not released the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wild video shows a man wanted for a series of California car thefts dodging gunfire and getting mowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[72445,723,236,88,90,89,3586,45081],"class_list":["post-144948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-carjackings","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-us-news","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144948","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=144948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}