SAN JOSE — Authorities have recognized the person killed early Sunday within the metropolis’s fourth murder of the 12 months.
Officers responded to a report of a taking pictures at about 2:44 a.m. within the space of Fourth and San Carlos streets, in accordance with a San Jose Police Division information launch. A person — recognized as 27-year-old Antioch resident Jacqui Amir Biggins — was discovered injured with no less than one gunshot wound; he died on the scene.
The slaying marked the town’s fourth murder of the 12 months, in accordance with police and knowledge compiled by this information group. San Jose had recorded 10 homicides by the identical level in 2021.
Police stated they haven’t recognized a suspect. The circumstances and motive of the taking pictures are nonetheless below investigation, in accordance with authorities.
The killing was adopted by extra violence when, at 3:11 a.m., officers investigating the deadly taking pictures noticed and heard individuals operating from a La Victoria restaurant half a block away on San Carlos Avenue, police stated. Folks advised authorities that a man was contained in the restaurant with a gun.
Police shot and injured a person, whom they initially described as a “suspect,” after ordering him to drop the gun he was holding in his left hand. His accidents have been described as non-life-threatening and he’s anticipated to outlive.
San Jose police Chief Anthony Mata acknowledged in a Tuesday information convention that the person shot by police was holding a gun he had wrested from one other particular person. Civil rights legal professional Adante Pointer, who represents the injured 20-year-old Oakland resident Ok’aun Inexperienced, stated Inexperienced made the state of affairs safer by taking the gun from the instigator and didn’t have time to answer the police’s instructions earlier than being shot.