{"id":322375,"date":"2026-05-19T05:47:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322375\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:47:24","slug":"victim-drowns-in-san-jose-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/322375\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim drowns in San Jose lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(KRON) \u2014 A victim drowned in Cottonwood Lake at Hellyer County Park in San Jose over the weekend, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Park rangers were alerted to \u201ca person in distress in the water\u201d at 1:40 p.m. Sunday, the Santa Clara County Sheriff\u2019s Office wrote. \u201cIt remains unclear why the individual entered the lake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A sheriff\u2019s dive team and underwater search unit found the victim\u2019s lifeless body less than three hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/man-killed-woman-injured-falling-123022257.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Man killed, woman injured by falling branches in North Bay;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Man killed, woman injured by falling branches in North Bay&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Man killed, woman injured by falling branches in North Bay <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Coyote Creek flows through the 178-acre urban park. Authorities said they were still working on Monday to confirm the victim\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KRON4. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(KRON) \u2014 A victim drowned in Cottonwood Lake at Hellyer County Park in San Jose over the weekend,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[134294,134293,29807,88,90,89,134295],"class_list":["post-322375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-cottonwood-lake","tag-hellyer-county-park","tag-park-rangers","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-underwater-search-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322375","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=322375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}