{"id":193469,"date":"2026-02-25T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193469\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:02:08","slug":"west-san-jose-parking-lot-shooting-a-murder-suicide-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193469\/","title":{"rendered":"West San Jose parking lot shooting a murder-suicide, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in San Jose released additional details about a deadly shooting Tuesday morning, saying a man killed his estranged partner before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n<p>According to officers, the shooting took place shortly before 11:40 a.m. in the parking lot of the El Paseo de Saratoga shopping center. Officers found a man and a woman, both with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Both people were pronounced deceased at the scene by medical personnel. At the time, police said it was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/san-jose-double-fatal-shooting-022526.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"san-jose-double-fatal-shooting-022526.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of fatal double shooting at the El Paseo de Saratoga shopping center in West San Jose on Feb. 24, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation by homicide detectives determined that the man, identified as 43-year-old Edgard Altamirano, confronted the woman and shot her multiple times before turning the gun on himself. Officers recovered a firearm at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect and victim were in a prior dating relationship that ended several months earlier. <\/p>\n<p>The victim has been identified as a 24-year-old woman. Her name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was the city&#8217;s 4th homicide of the year. Police said Wednesday that the motive and circumstances surrounding the shooting remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in San Jose released additional details about a deadly shooting Tuesday morning, saying a man killed his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[134,1331,8509,88,90,89,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-193469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-homicide","9":"tag-murder","10":"tag-murder-suicide","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193469","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=193469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}