{"id":467029,"date":"2026-09-17T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467029\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:22:08","slug":"nonprofit-in-honor-of-animal-advocate-killed-in-san-jose-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/467029\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit in honor of animal advocate killed in San Jose \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year after her daughter was killed in a triple shooting, a San Jose mother is reclaiming the tragic day and turning it into something positive.<\/p>\n<p>Jeannessa\u00a0Lurie\u2019s loved ones gathered Wednesday at Paul Moore Park to carry out her legacy as an animal advocate and launched &#8220;Jeannessa\u2019s Friends,&#8221; a nonprofit organization that aims to provide funding, education, and resources to animal rescue groups and low-income pet parents.<\/p>\n<p>Lurie, 24, was gunned down at her home last September alongside her roommate, Tarrah Taylor, and her boyfriend, Max Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged gunman, Joseph Vicencio, was Taylor&#8217;s boyfriend and is currently behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>In her first interview since the killings, Lurie\u2019s mother Jeanna said her daughter confided in her a couple of weeks before the shooting, saying she didn\u2019t like Vicencio and tried getting her roommate away from him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A really horrible person did a really horrible thing and he took my daughter&#8217;s life and he took the lives of Tarrah Taylor and Max Ryan,&#8221; Jeanna said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want him to take my life, and I wanted to be inspired by the things my daughter brought to this world in the short time she was here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year after her daughter was killed in a triple shooting, a San Jose mother is reclaiming the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-467029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467029","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=467029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}