{"id":472263,"date":"2026-09-22T20:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472263\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T20:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T20:20:36","slug":"san-jose-man-arrested-after-confessing-to-2-separate-murders-bodies-found-near-guadalupe-river-sjpd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/472263\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose man arrested after confessing to 2 separate murders; bodies found near Guadalupe River, SJPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; San Jose police on Saturday arrested a man who flagged down a patrol officer and allegedly confessed to two homicides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">At about 5:15 p.m., a 28-year-old man flagged down the officer and allegedly said he killed somebody in the area around Lelong Street and West Alma Avenue, police said in a news release Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers found a dead man in the area and arrested the suspect, who then allegedly admitted that he killed another person near Autumn Parkway and Coleman Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers went to the area and found the victim and booked the suspect into Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of two counts of murder, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Both bodies were found in different areas but near the Guadalupe River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators are still trying to determine why the suspect allegedly committed the homicides and what were the circumstances surrounding the killings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deaths were San Jose&#8217;s 20th and 21st homicides of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sgt. Van Den Broeck at 3829@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Estantino 4339@sanjoseca.gov or at 408-277-5283.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">People can send in tips anonymously using the P3TIPS mobile app, by calling the department&#8217;s tip line at 408-947-STOP or visiting <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright  2026 by Bay City News, Inc. Republication, re-transmission or reuse without the express written consent of Bay City News, Inc. Is prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8212; San Jose police on Saturday arrested a man who flagged down a patrol officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[185751,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-472263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-185751","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\/472263","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=472263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}