SAN JOSE – Authorities have recognized the person discovered lifeless in a San Jose residence in November, in what the coroner’s workplace later dominated a murder.
On Nov. 27, police responded to the realm of Almaden Highway for a report of a lifeless physique inside a house, San Jose Police Officer Steven Aponte mentioned in a information launch. A person was discovered inside and pronounced lifeless.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Workplace dominated the person’s demise a murder Dec. 2. The person was recognized as 59-year-old San Jose resident James Willburn White. The reason for demise is listed as “blunt pressure harm of the pinnacle.”
No suspects have been recognized or caught, in response to police. The circumstances and motive of the killing are beneath investigation.
The slaying marked the fortieth murder sufferer within the metropolis in 2021, with 31 investigated by San Jose police and 9 — victims of the VTA rail-yard bloodbath — investigated by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Workplace.