One person died and another person sustained \u201clife-threatening\u201d injuries, according to police, following a Sunday night shooting in a popular spot in California known for hosting World Cup festivities this summer.<\/p>\n
Police in the city of San Jose announced on X<\/a> just after 10 p.m. local time that they were investigating a homicide in the area of N Market St. and W Santa Clara St. near San Pedro Square<\/a>\u2014one of several zones in the greater San Francisco Bay Area where World Cup fans have gathered for watch parties. The announcement also advised residents to avoid the area.<\/p>\n No World Cup games, however, were being screened when the incident occurred, with the only scheduled game on Sunday ending at around 2 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n Reuters reported<\/a> that one of their journalists on scene witnessed an individual on a stretcher covered by a white sheet being carried \u200baway from the \u200barea by uniformed personnel. It also reported a heavy police presence in the area.<\/p>\n Gun violence<\/a> has been a persistent problem in the U.S. The latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that around 44,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the country in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n With up to 10 million travelers expected to enter the U.S.\u2014one of the 2026 World Cup\u2019s host countries along with Mexico and Canada\u2014to watch the games, gun violence<\/a> has been described as a potential concern<\/a> for visitors.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, nine people were injured in a shooting near England\u2019s national team base camp<\/a> in Kansas City, Mo., and on June 16 in the same city, one person was killed and several others injured, including an Uber driver who was taking fans to a World Cup match, in a series of roadway shootings<\/a> believed to be committed by one suspect<\/a>. On June 21, five people were hit by gunfire and one other was stabbed<\/a> In Brockton, Mass., during celebrations of Cape Verde\u2019s World Cup tie against Uruguay, and less than a week later, four people in Brockton sustained gunshot wounds<\/a> after gathering to celebrate the result of another Cape Verde match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person died and another person sustained \u201clife-threatening\u201d injuries, according to police, following a Sunday night shooting in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,4459,69955,5393],"class_list":["post-379118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-san-francisco-bay-area","tag-san-pedro-square","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379118","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=379118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}