{"id":413787,"date":"2026-07-27T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413787\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:04:34","slug":"da-clears-san-jose-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-father-after-childs-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413787\/","title":{"rendered":"DA clears San Jose officers in fatal shooting of father after child&#8217;s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Santa Clara County prosecutors have ruled that two police officers acted lawfully when they fatally shot a Fremont man who charged at them with a knife moments after he killed his 9-year-old son in a San Jose park last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Santa Clara County District Attorney\u2019s Office investigation found the officers reasonably believed they and others faced an imminent threat when Mateusz Dzierbun, 48, ran toward them with a knife raised over his head at Cataldi Park on July 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County prosecutors have ruled that two police officers acted lawfully when they fatally shot a Fremont&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[723,394,20303,5548,1492,88,90,89,2125,198],"class_list":["post-413787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-crime","tag-fremont","tag-officer-involved-shooting","tag-police-shootings","tag-public-safety","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police-department","tag-santa-clara-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413787","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=413787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}