SAN JOSE — The December loss of life of a care house employee, who collapsed after serving to subdue an intruder at a West San Jose assisted-living facility, has not too long ago been deemed a murder by the coroner’s workplace, authorities mentioned.
San Jose police introduced the information Wednesday relating to the Dec. 11 encounter on the Villa Fontana retirement neighborhood on Prospect Highway west of Lawrence Expressway. Based on police, Alex Albetria was an worker, working on the facility that morning when he helped maintain down a person who trespassed on the property and assaulted workers there.
After law enforcement officials arrived to arrest the person, Albetria, 63, “collapsed from the bodily exertion of restraining” the person, and he died quickly after at a hospital, police mentioned.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Workplace determined late final month to categorise Albetria’s loss of life as a murder, police mentioned. His reason for loss of life is formally listed as “bodily/psychological exertion” that compounded current hypertension and heart problems.
Police didn't publicly title the person arrested after the reported assault, and on the time he was booked on suspicion of assault and housebreaking. Authorities did say they introduced the brand new murder declaration to the county district legal professional’s workplace for assessment for extra expenses.
Although Albetria died final yr, the timing of the murder declaration has prompted the police division to rely his loss of life as town’s eleventh murder of 2023.
Anybody with info for investigators can contact the SJPD murder unit at 408-277-5283 or e mail Detective Sgt. Rafael Varela at 3638@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Jose Montoya at 3644@sanjoseca.gov. Suggestions can be submitted with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.