{"id":234302,"date":"2026-03-24T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234302\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:29:17","slug":"gilroy-woman-accused-of-neglect-leading-to-homicide-gilroy-dispatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234302\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilroy woman accused of neglect leading to homicide | Gilroy Dispatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c8c7466d157989713ac945c2a9527c3a-3.jpg\" data-caption=\"Crime blotter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c8c7466d157989713ac945c2a9527c3a-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"c8c7466d157989713ac945c2a9527c3a.jpg\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/133;\"\/><\/a>Crime blotter<\/p>\n<p>A Gilroy woman was arrested on suspicion of felony abuse after a disabled San Jose man she had been taking care of was found dead, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On May 17, 2025, police responded to a report of an unattended death at a home on the 1200 block of Mastic Street in San Jose, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers arrived on scene and located a 40-year-old man who had developmental disabilities, who was unconscious and not breathing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers determined the man had been emaciated and lacking basic necessities, and had likely died of neglect, says a press release from SJPD. The Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner took custody of the body and conducted an investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 29, SJPD detectives were informed by the medical examiner\u2019s staff that the manner of death was a homicide due to neglect, police said. Officers continued to investigate and identified the victim\u2019s in-home caretaker, Enid Acevedo, 69, as the primary suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police obtained a warrant for Acevedo\u2019s arrest. On March 18, police located and arrested Acevedo in Gilroy, authorities said. Acevedo was booked at the county jail on suspicion of felony abuse of a dependent adult resulting in death.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime blotter A Gilroy woman was arrested on suspicion of felony abuse after a disabled San Jose man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[187,95868,236,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-234302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-gilroy","tag-neglect","tag-police","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234302","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=234302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}