SAN JOSE — Police have announced the arrest of a Central Valley teen in connection with a shooting that wounded a man at an East San Jose shop last weekend.
The shooting was reported around 2:50 p.m. Jan. 10 at a business in a strip mall in the 3000 block of Story Road near South White Road, according to a San Jose police news release.
An investigation determined that the suspect had a brief interaction with a man inside the store “before firing at least one round at him” then fleeing in a vehicle, police said. The victim was treated at a local hospital and is expected to survive.
Responding officers recovered a “privately manufactured firearm” — also referred to as a “ghost gun” and a loaded extended magazine that were abandoned at the crime scene.
After identifying the suspect vehicle with license-plate reading cameras installed in the area, SJPD gang detectives found the vehicle abandoned but linked it to a 17-year-old boy they believe was behind the shooting.
Wednesday, police went to the boy’s home in Stockton and searched his home, finding “evidence related to the crime,” police said. The boy, whose name was withheld because he is a minor, was later booked at Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall on suspicion of attempted murder and other offenses related to the shooting.
Anyone with information about the Jan. 10 shooting can contact the SJPD Gang Investigations Unit at 408-277-3835 or email Detective Minkel at 5003@sanjoseca.gov or Detective Garcia at 5026@sanjoseca.gov. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org.
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