SAN JOSE — Authorities have identified the man killed early Sunday in the city’s fourth homicide of the year.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting at about 2:44 a.m. in the area of Fourth and San Carlos streets, according to a San Jose Police Department news release. A man — identified as 27-year-old Antioch resident Jacqui Amir Biggins — was found injured with at least one gunshot wound; he died at the scene.
The slaying marked the city’s fourth homicide of the year, according to police and data compiled by this news organization. San Jose had recorded 10 homicides by the same point in 2021.
Police said they haven’t identified a suspect. The circumstances and motive of the shooting are still under investigation, according to authorities.
The killing was followed by more violence when, at 3:11 a.m., officers investigating the fatal shooting saw and heard people running from a La Victoria restaurant half a block away on San Carlos Street, police said. People told authorities that a man was inside the restaurant with a gun.
Police shot and injured a man, whom they initially described as a “suspect,” after ordering him to drop the gun he was holding in his left hand. His injuries were described as non-life-threatening and he’s expected to survive.
San Jose police Chief Anthony Mata acknowledged in a Tuesday news conference that the man shot by police was holding a gun he had wrested from another person. Civil rights attorney Adante Pointer, who represents the injured 20-year-old Oakland resident K’aun Green, said Green made the situation safer by taking the gun from the instigator and didn’t have time to respond to the police’s commands before being shot.
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