{"id":379196,"date":"2026-06-29T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T12:30:08","slug":"one-person-killed-and-one-injured-in-shooting-at-california-world-cup-fan-zone-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/379196\/","title":{"rendered":"One person killed and one injured in shooting at California World Cup \u2018fan zone\u2019 | San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

One person was killed and another seriously injured on Sunday night \u2060in a shooting at a popular entertainment spot in San Jose<\/a>, California<\/a>, that has been hosting a World \u2060Cup \u201cfan zone\u201d as well as screening \u2060matches, police \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n

There were no World Cup games being screened at the time of the shooting, with the only match \u2060of the day in the tournament<\/a> finishing at about 2pm local time.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne victim was pronounced deceased on scene,\u201d San Jose<\/a> \u200bpolice said in a post \u200con \u200cX after the shooting, which was reported at about 9.10pm local time. \u201cThe \u2060second victim was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis incident is being investigated as a homicide. Several surrounding streets are closed \u200cin the area.\u201c<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at San Pedro Square, one of several places in the San Francisco Bay Area where huge crowds have gathered for lively \u201cwatch parties\u201d showing World Cup<\/a> matches on big screens.<\/p>\n

The Bay Area has hosted five World Cup matches so far, with the last \u200cgame set to be a knockout match on Wednesday between Bosnia and the US as a co-host.<\/p>\n

A Reuters journalist at the scene saw a \u200bheavy police presence, multiple police vehicles and a person on a stretcher partially covered by a white sheet being rushed away from the area by people in uniforms.<\/p>\n

The scene was cordoned off, and most bars in the area were \u2060closed after the incident.<\/p>\n

A security guard, who declined to be \u200bnamed because she was \u200bnot authorized to speak to \u200bmedia, said she saw the injured person in distress.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe person \u200bwas still moaning \u200cand groaning,\u201d she said. \u201c\u200bThere was blood \u200baround his neck and upper back.<\/p>\n

\u201cPolice were talking to security and a couple of witnesses.\u201c<\/p>\n

There are several dozen fan zones across the Bay Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was killed and another seriously injured on Sunday night \u2060in a shooting at a popular entertainment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-379196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379196","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=379196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}