{"id":367097,"date":"2026-06-19T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367097\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:38:08","slug":"san-jose-man-charged-with-murder-in-connection-with-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367097\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man charged with murder in connection with fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 A 38-year-old San Jose man is facing a murder charge in connection with a police pursuit and crash that left his passenger dead<\/a> last weekend, police said.<\/p>\n

The Santa Clara County District Attorney\u2019s Office has also charged Justin Buban with several other crimes, including reckless driving, evading a police officer and driving under the influence.<\/p>\n

The crash happened around 12:15 a.m. Sunday at Naglee and Park avenues in San Jose. Police said Buban ran a red light in his Buick and crashed into another car before hitting a traffic pole.<\/p>\n

Santa Clara officers were pursuing the Buick at the time. Police said the vehicle had initially been spotted speeding and driving recklessly on Stevens Creek Boulevard in neighboring Santa Clara.<\/p>\n

A woman who was riding in the Buick was pronounced dead at the collision scene.<\/p>\n

Both occupants of the second car suffered minor injuries and were treated at area hospitals.<\/p>\n

Buban was wanted on a warrant prior to the chase and crash, police said. The charges included felon in possession of a firearm, petty theft, driving or taking a vehicle without consent, false impersonation, evading a police officer and failure to appear in court.<\/p>\n

While charges have been filed against Buban, the investigation is continuing, police said. Anyone with information can contact the SJPD Traffic Investigations Unit at 408-277-4654.<\/p>\n

Witnesses can also contact Traffic Investigator Steven Ernst at 408-614-4764 or the anonymous tip line at 408-615-4847.<\/p>\n

Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 A 38-year-old San Jose man is facing a murder charge in connection with a police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,8197,350,723,115105,100,4248,88,90,89,197,198,200,25811],"class_list":["post-367097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-crime","tag-criminal-charges","tag-news","tag-police-pursuit","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-traffic-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367097","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=367097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}