SAN JOSE \u2014 Police officers shot and killed a man that authorities allege threatened them with a gun on a residential street near a high school late Sunday in San Jose.<\/p>\n
The shooting was reported at 10:24 p.m. on Locke Drive, a small street that backs up against the athletic fields of Andrew Hill High School, in the vicinity of East Capitol Expressway and Senter Road.<\/p>\n
According to a brief announcement on social media Monday, San Jose police said a man \u201cbrandished a firearm at officers,\u201d and that \u201cofficers then discharged their firearms at the suspect,\u201d who died at the scene.<\/p>\n
Police did not disclose additional details, including what prompted officers to encounter the man.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an active and ongoing investigation,\u201d police wrote.<\/p>\n
A Tuesday afternoon news conference was tentatively scheduled by police to reveal more details about the shooting. Monday is a city holiday to commemorate Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n
The incident marked the third fatal police shooting by San Jose police officers this year.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 Police officers shot and killed a man that authorities allege threatened them with a gun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1491,192102,236,88,90,89,135],"class_list":["post-493907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-fatal","tag-locke-drive","tag-police","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493907","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=493907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}