SAN JOSE — San Jose police are investigating the city’s 15th homicide of this year, a man who was found dead from a gunshot wound in an apartment complex near a busy shopping mall.
The killing occurred at about 2:45 p.m. on Sunday at an apartment in the 1000 block of Blossom River Way, a street that’s adjacent to the bustling Westfield Oakridge shopping center in South San Jose.
“When officers arrived, they located an adult male victim who was neither conscious nor breathing and was suffering from at least one gunshot wound,” the San Jose Police Department stated in a prepared release.
Police officers immediately began to administer life-saving measures to the victim and at the same time called emergency medical responders to the apartment. But the man died in the apartment, police said.
The victim, described as an adult male, wasn’t immediately identified.
“The suspect is unknown and fled the scene prior to police arrival,” the police department said. “The motive and circumstances surrounding the event are under investigation.”
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office will release the man’s name once he is identified and his next of kin are notified.
Anyone with information is asked to email Detective Sgt. Julien Taylor at 4257@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Mike Harrington 4365@sanjoseca.gov, or call 408-277-5283.
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