{"id":237898,"date":"2026-03-26T18:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237898\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:48:13","slug":"man-arrested-in-san-jose-on-suspicion-of-attempted-murder-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237898\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in San Jose on suspicion of attempted murder \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly shooting at two juveniles after asking their gang affiliation, striking one of them, San Jose authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Ortiz-Buenrostro, a 32-year-old resident of San Jose, was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on suspicion of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3:10 p.m. on Dec. 6, officers responded to reports of a shooting on the 1100 block of South Capitol Avenue, authorities said. Ortiz-Buenrostro asked two juvenile boys for their gang affiliation, then pulled out a firearm and shot at the victims.<\/p>\n<p>One victim was struck by a bullet and was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The second victim was unharmed after a bullet hit his clothing, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then fled the scene, authorities added.<\/p>\n<p>Through the investigation, conducted by the Gang Investigations Unit, detectives found the suspect vehicle and identified the suspect, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz-Buenrostro was arrested in San Jose, authorities said. Authorities also executed a search warrant at his residence and uncovered the suspect firearm, as well as clothes worn during the alleged shooting and other gang indicia.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with further information on this incident is asked to contact Detective Garcia #5026 or Detective Minkel #5003 at 5026@sanjoseca.gov, 5003@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-3835.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly shooting at two juveniles after asking their gang affiliation, striking one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,861,7,723,138,181,100,36365,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-237898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-bay-area-crime","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-peninsula-crime","16":"tag-san-jose","17":"tag-san-jose-headlines","18":"tag-san-jose-news","19":"tag-santa-clara-county","20":"tag-south-bay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237898","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=237898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}