{"id":493887,"date":"2026-10-12T20:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493887\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T20:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T20:38:11","slug":"san-jose-police-fatally-shoot-man-they-say-threatened-officers-with-a-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493887\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Police Fatally Shoot Man They Say Threatened Officers with a Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Jose Police Department reported today that officers shot and killed a man Sunday night after he\u00a0 threatened them with a gun on a residential street in Southeast San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief 11am social media post, more than 12 hours after the 10:24pm shooting, the police department said: \u201cThe suspect brandished a firearm at officers. Officers then discharged their firearms at the suspect. The suspect in this event was declared deceased at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because today is a city holiday, Indigenous Peoples Day, police postponed any further statements until a Tuesday afternoon press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SJPD_PIO?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">X post<\/a> said the incident occurred on Locke Drive, which is just east of the athletic fields of Andrew HIll High School near the East Capitol Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was the third fatal police shooting by San Jose police officers this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Jose Police Department reported today that officers shot and killed a man Sunday night after he\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[192126,151490,88,90,89,17060],"class_list":["post-493887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-andrew-hill-school","tag-fatal-police-shooting","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\/493887","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=493887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}