Authorities identify man killed in city’s rst homicide of the year

By Summer Lin slin@bayareanewsgroup.com

SAN JOSE » A man stabbed to death Tuesday afternoon in a Carl’s Jr. parking lot in East San Jose, marking the city’s first homicide of the year, has been identified by authorities.

The man was 31-year-old Dominic Vincent Ortega, according to the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s O ce.

The attack was reported about 3:17 p.m. in the 1600 block of Tully Road, near Highway 101 and a Carl’s Jr. restaurant, San Jose police said in a news release. A man was stabbed at least once in the Carl’s Jr. parking lot. He then pulled his car into a gas station at the intersection of Tully and King Roads, colliding with another vehicle.

O cers and paramedics performed livesaving measures until he was taken to a hospital, where he later

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died, according to authorities. More information, including details on potential suspects or a motive, was not released. The incident is still under investigation.

The death ended one of the longest stretches that San Jose has gone to start the year without recording a homicide. Last year, the city’s first killing was reported Jan. 9, and San Jose recorded four homicides by Feb. 9.

In 2021, 40 homicides were recorded in San Jose: 31 were investigated by San Jose police and nine, from the VTA rail yard mass shooting, were investigated by the Santa Clara County Sheri ’s O ce.

The prevailing source of public safety deaths in San Jose this year involves the city’s roadways: 12 people have died in traffic collisions in 2022, outpacing a record 2021. Eight of the year’s tra c victims were pedestrians.

Man killed in house re on Tuesday is identi ed

By Summer Lin slin@bayareanewsgroup.com

SAN JOSE » Authorities have identified the man killed in a house fire Tuesday afternoon in San Jose.

Firefighters pulled a man, identified as 78-yearold Andrew Edward Ceseski from a single-story home, according to the San Jose Fire Department.

The fire was reported at 4:12 p.m. on the 3600 block of Debra Way, near San Tomas Expressway and Moorpark Avenue, authorities man, his girlfriend and a man in his 20s were returning to their parked car on the shopping center’s east side when a man approached them and fired a gun, shooting the victim in his foot and hand. The suspect fled the scene. The man’s girlfriend took him to a hospital and alerted police.

Police are investigating the case. The victim isn’t cooperating with po - lice and isn’t giving more information to investigators.

A witness at the scene said he saw the suspect get out of the back seat of a white BMW and run up to the man, authorities said.

After shooting the victim, the suspect got into the back seat of the vehicle, fleeing eastbound through the parking lot.

The suspect was described as a man in a black hooded sweatshirt, about 5-foot-6 and with a “slim build.” The witness didn’t describe the driver of the BMW and couldn’t give more information about the vehicle.

Police reviewed surveillance footage but haven’t found video of the shooting. Authorities will release additional footage and images in identifying the suspect if they become available.