{"id":7214,"date":"2025-10-16T03:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7214\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:05:06","slug":"officials-identify-man-killed-in-assault-at-san-jose-light-rail-station-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7214\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials identify man killed in assault at San Jose light rail station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2013 An unhoused man who died f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/01\/man-critically-injured-in-fight-at-san-jose-light-rail-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ollowing a brutal assault late last month<\/a> at a Valley Transportation Authority light rail station in North San Jose has been identified as Michael Patrick Howard, the Santa Clara County Medical-Examiner\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened Sept. 29 at the Gish station, located at East Gish Road and North First Street, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Deputies found Howard, 42, suffering from serious head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation determined Howard had been severely beaten. He was taken to an area hospital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/10\/09\/san-jose-man-dies-of-injuries-from-assault-at-vta-light-rail-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">where he died Oct. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Fryshaw, 23, was arrested in connection with the assault and booked into county jail.<\/p>\n<p>He is still being held without bail at the Main Jail in San Jose, jail records showed.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are investigating Fryshaw\u2019s connection to a separate assault, also in late September, of another unhoused person at the St. James light rail station, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 An unhoused man who died following a brutal assault late last month at a Valley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7209,723,134,7210,100,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-7214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-brandon-fryshaw","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-michael-patrick-howard","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-jose","15":"tag-san-jose-headlines","16":"tag-san-jose-news","17":"tag-santa-clara-county","18":"tag-south-bay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214","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=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}