{"id":459811,"date":"2026-09-10T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459811\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:00:11","slug":"san-jose-man-fatally-shot-wednesday-night-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/459811\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose: Man fatally shot Wednesday night \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 A man died Wednesday night after being shot in an area just south of the city\u2019s downtown district, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 10:20 p.m. in the area of Oak Street and Palm Street, according to a news release from the San Jose Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrived to the scene to find an adult man suffering from at least one gunshot wound, authorities said. The man died at the scene despite attempts at lifesaving measures.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s identity was not immediately released by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner pending identification and notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>The incident remains under investigation by SJPD\u2019s Homicide Unit. A motive and circumstances are not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>This was San Jose\u2019s 19th homicide of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with further information on the incident is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Varela #3638 or Detective Montoya #3644 at 3638@sanjoseca.gov, 3644@sanjoseca.gov or 408-277-5283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 A man died Wednesday night after being shot in an area just south of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,861,7,723,138,181,100,88,90,89,198,200,2442],"class_list":["post-459811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","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\/459811","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=459811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}