{"id":156855,"date":"2026-01-30T19:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156855\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:03:27","slug":"a-harrowing-downtown-gunbattle-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156855\/","title":{"rendered":"A harrowing downtown gunbattle \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt was a battle for that sergeant\u2019s life, unfolding in the middle of our city, in broad daylight, with members of the public in the crossfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Jose Police Chief Paul Joseph, on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/22\/san-jose-police-detail-frantic-downtown-shootout-that-ended-with-wounded-officer-death-of-crime-spree-suspect\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<\/a> including a grazing head shot to a city sergeant who was hospitalized with a skull fracture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a battle for that sergeant\u2019s life, unfolding in the middle of our city, in broad daylight,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,8,11649,181,23,205,100,13,385,88,90,89,2125,198,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-156855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-internal-affairs","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-local-politics","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-regional","18":"tag-san-jose","19":"tag-san-jose-headlines","20":"tag-san-jose-news","21":"tag-san-jose-police-department","22":"tag-santa-clara-county","23":"tag-south-bay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156855","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=156855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}