SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Jose police shot a person wielding a gun at a downtown restaurant early Sunday morning, about a block from where another person was killed in another shooting.
Nearly eight hours later, several blocks of downtown San Jose remained closed as police investigated a sprawling crime scene along the western perimeter of San Jose State University.
Both shootings happened within about a half-hour of each other near the university’s campus, though San Jose police say it remains unclear whether the two incidents were connected in any way.
The violence began shortly before 2:45 a.m. when a man was killed on South Fourth Street just north of San Carlos Street in what is the city’s fourth homicide of 2022, according to the San Jose Police Department. No arrests have been announced, and police said early Sunday that they were still investigating what led to the shooting.
At 3:11 a.m., officers investigating that fatal shooting saw and heard people fleeing the nearby La Victoria restaurant a half-block away on San Carlos Street, according to the department’s Twitter page. Multiple people told officers that there was a man inside the restaurant with a gun, police said.
Officers opened fire after a man had pointed a gun at “another involved subject,” the department’s Twitter page said.
That man is expected to survive.
Police had earlier said that the shootings were reported within a minute of each other, but they later clarified that about a half-hour had passed between the incidents.
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