An investigator’s hunch led the DA’s Office to a suspect in the 33-year-old gang murder of a 14-year-old in San Jose. The man, who was living under another name in Ohio, was killed in a shootout with the FBI 17 years ago.
The Santa Clara District Attorney has asked the court to change death sentences of 15 men to life in prison, saying capital punishment in an unfair and ineffective deterrent.
Santa Clara Police Department officers arrived in the area of the Feb. 20 fatal shooting, and arrested the suspect as he walked on the sidewalk of White Oak Lane.
One suspect in one of the three separate San Jose homicide incidents is in custody, the prime suspect in another killing died in a car accident while fleeing the scene and one or more suspects in a fatal shooting remained at large as of today.
Santa Clara police identified the man in the apartment where the boy’s body was found as Sergio Colin Gomez. They said he resisted arrest and after a brief struggle, was taken into custody at the scene of the homicide.
Police said street gang members were arrested for attempted murder, armed robberies, assaults, possession of firearms and possession of narcotics, according to a press release.
The seemingly random attack against strangers left three people dead and seven wounded before police found a bloody Kevin Parkourana hiding in a delivery van outside of a Milpitas Smart & Final.
A man who was on life support for more than a week after being shot in San Jose on New Year's Day died from his injuries Monday, An arrest was made, but city police declined to identity the suspect or victim.
John Arthur Getreu, 78, admitted to the 1973 murder of Lesley Perlov, 16 months after he was convicted in the 1974 killing of another woman in what proxecutors called The Stanford Murders.