{"id":170968,"date":"2026-02-09T22:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170968\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T22:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:55:46","slug":"two-killed-in-late-night-downtown-shooting-santa-cruz-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170968\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in late-night downtown shooting \u2013 Santa Cruz Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 Two men are dead following a shooting downtown early Sunday, according to the San Jose Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was reported around 2:20 a.m. in the 100 block of Paseo de San Antonio, near South Third Street, police said. Patrol and special operations officers, working an area seeing crowds and visitors related to Super Bowl LX being held Sunday in Santa Clara, arrived to find two men with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Police said both men died at the scene. Their names were not publicly released pending their formal identification and notification of their next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect information was not immediately available Sunday morning. But police said the shooting was preceded by an altercation that ended with the shooting, and that an initial investigation \u201chas revealed this to be an isolated incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There also was no immediate indication that the conflict involved out-of-town visitors or was motivated by fan rivalry, according to a law-enforcement source. Police said only that \u201cthe motive and circumstances surrounding the event are still under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deaths marks the city\u2019s second and third homicides of the year investigated by San Jose police. The first was recorded Feb. 1, involving a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/06\/san-jose-two-men-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-17-year-old-boy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting at a West San Jose pizzeria that killed a 17-year-old boy<\/a> and led to two brothers in their 40s being jailed and charged. Three homicides had been recorded in San Jose by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/01\/13\/bay-area-homicides-2025-map-and-details\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">same point in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information for investigators can contact the SJPD homicide unit at 408-277-5283 or email Detective Sgt. Julien Taylor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2026\/02\/09\/san-jose-two-killed-in-late-night-downtown-shooting\/mailto:4257@sanjoseca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4257@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>, Detective Catherine Van Brande at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2026\/02\/09\/san-jose-two-killed-in-late-night-downtown-shooting\/mailto:4542@sanjoseca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4542@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>, or Detective Amanda Estantino at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2026\/02\/09\/san-jose-two-killed-in-late-night-downtown-shooting\/mailto:4339@sanjoseca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">4339@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.santacruzsentinel.com\/2026\/02\/09\/san-jose-two-killed-in-late-night-downtown-shooting\/tel:4089477867\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">408-947-7867<\/a>\u00a0or at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"http:\/\/siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org\/\">siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Two men are dead following a shooting downtown early Sunday, according to the San Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,8,1471,723,138,181,100,266,88,90,89,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-170968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-news","10":"tag-central-coast","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-california","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-santa-clara-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170968","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=170968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}