San Jose: Two killed in late-night downtown shooting

SAN JOSE — Two men are dead following a shooting downtown early Sunday, according to the San Jose Police Department.

The shooting was reported around 2:20 a.m. in the 100 block of Paseo de San Antonio, near South Third Street, police said. Patrol and special operations officers, working an area seeing crowds and visitors related to Super Bowl LX being held Sunday in Santa Clara, arrived to find two men with gunshot wounds.

Police said both men died at the scene. Their names were not publicly released pending their formal identification and notification of their next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.

Suspect information was not immediately available Sunday morning. But police said the shooting was preceded by an altercation that ended with the shooting, and that an initial investigation “has revealed this to be an isolated incident.”

There also was no immediate indication that the conflict involved out-of-town visitors or was motivated by fan rivalry, according to a law-enforcement source. Police said only that “the motive and circumstances surrounding the event are still under investigation.”

The deaths marks the city’s second and third homicides of the year investigated by San Jose police. The first was recorded Feb. 1, involving a shooting at a West San Jose pizzeria that killed a 17-year-old boy and led to two brothers in their 40s being jailed and charged. Three homicides had been recorded in San Jose by the same point in 2025.

Anyone with information for investigators can contact the SJPD homicide unit at 408-277-5283 or email Detective Sgt. Julien Taylor at 4257@sanjoseca.gov, Detective Catherine Van Brande at 4542@sanjoseca.gov, or Detective Amanda Estantino at 4339@sanjoseca.gov. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org.