{"id":501321,"date":"2026-10-19T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501321\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T19:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T19:30:12","slug":"san-jose-officer-injured-during-traffic-stop-leading-to-police-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501321\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose officer injured during traffic stop leading to police shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/zvns9i342nlco2qp.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose police officer injured during overnight traffic stop\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/zvns9i342nlco2qp.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose police officer injured during overnight traffic stop\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-s88zbl30vy80zqol\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose police officer injured during overnight traffic stop<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">An investigation is underway in San Jose after an officer was injured during a traffic stop just before 3 a.m. Monday near North 21st Street and Santa Clara Street. Police say a second officer fired a weapon during the incident, though it&#8217;s unclear if anyone was struck by the gunfire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/sjpd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Jose police<\/a> officer was injured early Monday during a traffic stop that led another officer to fire a gun, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Officers were conducting a vehicle enforcement stop around 2:54 a.m. near North 21st and Santa Clara streets, according to the San Jose Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Police said the incident resulted in one officer being injured and a second officer discharging a firearm, prompting a police shooting. The stopped vehicle immediately fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>   Possible associated vehicle located <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTVU\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Shortly afterward, officers found the vehicle near Lucretia Avenue and Tully Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The extent of the officer\u2019s injuries and how they occurred remained unclear.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Police were expected to provide additional details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story obtains information from the San Jose Police Department.,<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose police officer injured during overnight traffic stop An investigation is underway in San Jose after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501322,"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-501321","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\/501321","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=501321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}