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Marcelino Castro, 28, of San Jose, was arrested by San Jose police in connection to two homicides. He faces two murder charges. (Photo: San Jose Police Department) <\/p>\n
SAN JOSE, Calif. – A man in San Jose<\/a> is facing murder charges after authorities say he approached a police officer and told the officer he’d just committed a homicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n Suspect alleged he committed two homicides <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n According to police, the suspect, identified as 28-year-old Marcelino Castro, flagged down an officer Saturday just after 5 p.m. Officers then responded to the area of Lelong Avenue and Alma Avenue, where they found the deceased victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n During the course of the investigation, police say Castro detailed a second homicide \u2013 which led police to Autumn Parkway and Coleman Avenue, where they found a second victim.<\/p>\n Castro was booked into the Santa Clara County jail on two counts of murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n Unknown motive, circumstances <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Police have not shared any other details on a potential motive or circumstances surrounding the homicides.\u00a0<\/p>\n The two victims have not been identified.<\/p>\n There have been a total of 21 homicides in San Jose this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Those with information related to the investigation, suspect or victims are asked to contact the San Jose Police Department by email at 3829@sanjoseca.gov<\/a> or 4339@sanjoseca.gov, \u00a0or by phone at 408-277-5283<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from the San Jose Police Department.<\/p>\n San Jose<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Marcelino Castro, 28, of San Jose, was arrested by San Jose police in connection to two homicides.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,2042,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-472283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472283","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=472283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}