{"id":422657,"date":"2026-08-03T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:45:40","slug":"san-jose-man-dies-from-mysterious-injury-at-music-festival-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422657\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man dies from mysterious injury at music festival \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Jose man died from a mysterious injury suffered at a Southern California music festival, and his family is seeking information about what happened.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The family of David Granado Jr. has started a GoFundMe account after his death. (Family photo via GoFundMe)\" width=\"1500\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/granado-full.png\" data-attachment-id=\"13008493\" \/>The family of David Granado Jr. has started a GoFundMe account after his death. (Family photo via GoFundMe)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>David Granado Jr., 30, died in a hospital on Thursday, July 30, four days after he sustained a traumatic brain injury while attending the Warped Tour show in Long Beach, his brother said in social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>He was attending the punk\/alternative rock festival July 26 with companions including his brother Alejandro, who told an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2026\/08\/02\/family-of-man-who-suffered-fatal-injury-at-long-beach-music-festival-seeks-answers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Orange County Register<\/a> reporter that they had been separated for a few hours when he received a call saying David had been taken to the medical tent and then to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was with him in the crowd a lot and it wasn\u2019t crazy, just hoping to find out what happened,\u201d said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/warpedtour\/comments\/1vb8sbt\/im_sorry_to_all_who_sent_their_well_wishes_for_my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Reddit post<\/a> from an account that Alejandro Granado confirmed was his.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to seeking information from anybody who saw Granado at the show, the family has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-david-granado-jr?cdn-cache=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GoFundMe account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Jose man died from a mysterious injury suffered at a Southern California music festival, and his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4846,184,7,8,1531,138,181,23,100,88,90,89,198,200,2442],"class_list":["post-422657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-accidents","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422657","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=422657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}