Late afternoon on Saturday, a San Jos\u00e9 Police Department patrol officer was flagged down by a young man who said he had killed someone.<\/p>\n
Additional officers responded to the area of Lelong Avenue and Alma Avenue where they found a deceased male victim. The suspect, identified as Marcelino Castro, 28, of San Jose was subsequently taken into custody, police reported on Tuesday..<\/p>\n
During the investigation by Homicide Unit Detectives, police said Castro told them about a second homicide that had occurred in the area of Autumn Parkway and Coleman Avenue. When detectives responded to the scene, they located a second deceased person.<\/p>\n
Castro was booked into the Santa Clara County Main Jail for two counts of murder.<\/p>\n
Police said the motive and circumstances surrounding the event are still under investigation.<\/p>\n
The case is being investigated as the city’s 20th and 21st homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sergeant Van Den Broeck #3829, and\/or Detective Estantino #4339 of the San Jos\u00e9 Police Department\u2019s Homicide Unit at 408-277-5283.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late afternoon on Saturday, a San Jos\u00e9 Police Department patrol officer was flagged down by a young man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[15699,134,53354,88,90,89,17060],"class_list":["post-474272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-double-murder","tag-homicide","tag-homicide-unit","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474272","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=474272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}