{"id":212892,"date":"2026-03-10T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212892\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:30:10","slug":"2-arrested-in-january-homicide-of-mother-in-sunnyvale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212892\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in January homicide of mother in Sunnyvale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f7i109g7aiu11zhd.jpg\" alt=\"2 arrested in Sunnyvale homicide\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-gwocd5mtynt1l3xn\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2 arrested in Sunnyvale homicide<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">Sunnyvale investigators have arrested Gerzon Chirinos and Alfonso Inestroza for the Jan. 7 shooting death of 24-year-old Kembery Chirinos-Flores, who was found slain in her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">SUNNYVALE, Calif. &#8211; Two men have been arrested in connection with the January shooting death of a 24-year-old mother found in her car in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/sunnyvale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sunnyvale<\/a>, officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Authorities allege Kembery Chirinos-Flores, of Mountain View, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/sunnyvale-woman-fatally-shot-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was killed on Jan. 7<\/a> by the father of her child and another man, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. Officers found Chirinos-Flores slain in her vehicle around 9:39 p.m. in the 1200 block of Vienna Drive.<\/p>\n<p> Homicide investigation  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The suspects fled the scene before officers arrived. Following a months-long investigation, detectives identified the suspects as Gerzon Chirinos, of Sunnyvale, and Alfonso Inestroza, of Hollister.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Both men were booked into Santa Clara County Jail on murder charges. Inestroza also had an outstanding arrest warrant for an unrelated murder case in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Kembery Ninoska Chirinos Flores, 24, was found shot to death in her car in Sunnyvale on Jan. 7, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>   Domestic violence history <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Investigators say Chirinos-Flores and Chirinos shared a 5-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">According to police, Chirinos has a history of domestic violence-related offenses involving a different victim in 2018.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">While authorities recovered a shotgun believed to be the murder weapon, they have not yet said which man fired the fatal shots.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The victim\u2019s son is currently in the custody of Child Protective Services.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;Kembury was in the prime of her life. She was working two jobs to make ends meet, and she was a loving mother,&#8221; said Sunnyvale DPS Chief Daniel Pistor. &#8220;This was a tragic, senseless act of violence that is fortunately extremely rare in our city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story as written based on information from the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/sunnyvale\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sunnyvale<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 arrested in Sunnyvale homicide Sunnyvale investigators have arrested Gerzon Chirinos and Alfonso Inestroza for the Jan. 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,2042,100,88,90,89,198,203,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-212892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-santa-clara-county","15":"tag-sunnyvale","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212892","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=212892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}