{"id":189538,"date":"2026-02-23T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189538\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:33:08","slug":"san-jose-family-remembers-cousins-killed-on-super-bowl-sunday-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189538\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose family remembers cousins killed on Super Bowl Sunday \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Jose family had to make funeral arrangements for two cousins who were shot to death in downtown San Jose on Super Bowl Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Aguirre\u2019s parents say they never thought they&#8217;d have to bury their own child.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was shot and killed on Super Bowl Sunday in downtown San Jose alongside his cousin, 37-year-old Nickolas Amador Banuelos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m gonna miss him coming in my house and hearing his voice,\u201d Aguirre\u2019s mom Juanita Casillas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was loved so much by everybody, you know,\u201d Aguirre\u2019s dad Fernando Aguirre added.<\/p>\n<p>Banuelo\u2019s mom is left with only memories of her son.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose police found the two men shot early morning on Super Bowl Sunday, near San Pedro Square. They believe the two had gotten in some sort of altercation beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose police say they&#8217;ve made an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe definitely want justice for them. They were way too young to be taken from all of us,\u201d Casillas said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the family was making funeral arrangements. They remembered Banuelos as a loving father who liked sports, and Aguirre as a free spirit.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve launched two GoFundMe\u2019s for funeral expenses and are asking anyone who may have heard or seen anything to contact San Jose police.<\/p>\n<p>The family says they\u2019re thankful for the community support over the last couple of weeks, including Campus Burgers for offering free food as loved ones gathered at this memorial, as well as the flower shop across providing some flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose family had to make funeral arrangements for two cousins who were shot to death in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-189538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189538","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=189538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}