{"id":431037,"date":"2026-08-12T20:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431037\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:40:44","slug":"oakridge-mall-san-jose-shooting-active-shooter-reported-at-westfields-blossom-hill-rd-property-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431037\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakridge mall, San Jose: Shooting, active shooter reported at Westfield&#8217;s Blossom Hill Rd property- what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">The Westfield Oakridge mall in San Jose, <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/california\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"California\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">California<\/a> has reportedly been locked down on Wednesday afternoon amid a possible <a class=\"backlink\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/topic\/us-shooting\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting<\/a> on the property on Blossom Hill Road. Visitors are reporting chaos at the mall as a police response is underway. Some claim that a shooting may have taken place on the property.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Oakridge_mall_shooting_1786563252415_1786563252540_62e3ad79-4af2-4b2a-90ab-1d1fef3bc52a.jpg\" alt=\"Rpresentational. (Unsplash)\" title=\"Rpresentational. (Unsplash)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Rpresentational. (Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">However, as of now the San Jose Police Department has not confirmed the details of the incident. Multiple users in the local Facebook group Moms Of San Jose <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/raver_bear\/status\/2087616554653598045\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"discussed the situation\">discussed the situation<\/a>, suggesting a shooting may have taken place inside the mall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The San Jose Police Department has not yet confirmed if shots were fired at the mall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Westfield Oakridge mall in San Jose, California has reportedly been locked down on Wednesday afternoon amid a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171304,171302,171303,88,90,89,43275,3586,171305],"class_list":["post-431037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-oakridge-mall-active-shooter","tag-oakridge-mall-shooting","tag-oakridge-mall-shooting-today","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-shooting","tag-us-news","tag-westfield-oakridge-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431037","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=431037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}