San Jose Security Officer Murdered During Domestic Violence Murder-Suicide
San Jose, Calif. June 14 2022– San Jose police are investigating the shooting death of three people, including the murder of an on-duty security officer.
It’s a crime they’re characterizing as a murder-suicide, which ended up in the deaths of a couple and an apartment security guard who stepped in to help.
The deaths occurred Sunday about 1:30 a.m. in a part of the city not accustomed to violence: Crescent Village Apartments near Cisco Way and River Oaks Parkway.
Police said a couple with six children were having a domestic dispute in the parking lot when the apartment security officer tried to intervene.
Police say the man fatally shot the security guard, the woman and then turned the gun on himself. The security officer has been identified as:
Marco Carral Duran, 23
Police said the gun that he used had a serial number scratched off, which is illegal in California.
None of those killed were immediately identified.
A woman at the complex who didn’t want to be identified said she was watching a movie when she heard something unusual.
“But I thought it was like knocking or fireworks because this is a pretty safe neighborhood. So, I didn’t expect it to be a shooting.”
After arriving on the scene, police found three people had been shot and killed just outside the building, two men and a woman, with at least one gunshot each.
“We think it’s a safe neighborhood, and that’s why we got a place here, so we moved here last October after some research because it’s close to Intel campus and also Cisco campus,” said a tech worker named Bharath.
Around the corner from the crime scene, investigators examined an SUV, but have not said how the vehicle might be linked to the crime.
The murders bring this year’s homicide rate in San Jose to 16.
