Police in San Jose recently arrested a suspect seven years after a 2017 shooting downtown that left a man dead, according to authorities.
According to a press release issued by the San Jose Police Department , on the night of May 18, 2017, shortly before 10 p.m., patrol officers heard gunshots in the area of South 1st Street and Edwards Avenue. The officers found an adult male victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound. Paramedics responded to the scene and transported the victim to an area hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. The shooting was San Jose's 12th homicide of 2017.
as the primary suspect. A warrant was obtained for his arrest and last Wednesday, officers from the SJPD Covert Response Unit located and apprehended the suspect in San Jose. He was subsequently booked into the Santa Clara County Jail for murder. The motive and circumstances surrounding the incident remain under investigation, police said.
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