San Jose police investigating murder outside Target store
SAN JOSE CA Dec 2 2020 A man was fatally stabbed in the parking lot of an East San Jose shopping plaza amid one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year, authorities said.
The attack was reported around 7:45 p.m. Sunday outside the Target on North Capitol Avenue, on the Capitol Square Mall grounds, according to San Jose police.
Responding officers found a man suffering from stab wounds, and he was rushed to a local hospital, where he died, police said. His name was not immediately released pending his formal identification and notification of his next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office.
A suspect has not been identified, and the circumstances of the fatal attack are being investigated, police said.
The death marked the city’s the 42nd homicide of the year. There were 34 homicides in all of 2019 in San Jose, which is currently on pace to record 45 homicides in 2020, which would approach the 25-year high of 47 in 2016.
The site of Sunday’s stabbing was near the site of a homicide on Nov. 10, when Federico Gallarzo Castro, a 28-year-old Richmond resident, was fatally shot in another part of the parking lot.
On May 17, across the street in front of the Wienerschnitzel on North Capitol Avenue, a confrontation between two families led to the stabbing death of a 51-year-old Gilroy man. The couple who had been initially arrested were later let go without charges, after prosecutors determined they had a credible self-defense claim.
Anyone with information for investigators about Sunday’s homicide can contact SJPD Detective Sgt. Anthony Kilmer or Detective Ted Reckas at 408-277-5283 or leave a tip with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at svcrimestoppers.org.
