San Jose police are searching for a man in connection with a homicide early today after finding a woman’s body on fire inside a house near downtown.Officer Enrique Garcia would not disclose any details about the man. And he added that the manner and cause of the woman’s death will be determined after an autopsy performed by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office.
A second woman was stabbed as part of the same incident, he said.
Details were still sketchy about what happened this morning. Before dawn, police had blocked off access to the home in the 1000 block of East Taylor Street near 23rd Street, a residential area of mostly single-family homes. As of 7:30 a.m., the coroner had not yet arrived, and police cars and crime scene trucks dotted the neighborhood.
Just before 2 a.m., police responded to multiple reports of a woman covered in blood. Officers arrived to discover a woman suffering from non-life-threatening stab wounds standing distraught outside on a sidewalk. She directed police to a house about 100 yards from where she was standing on Taylor Street. Inside, officers found a second woman on fire. That woman is now dead. It is the 21st homicide of the year in San Jose.
Fire crews responded and quickly knocked down the flames.
At the time of the incident, both women were inside the house, along with two or three children, Garcia said. The children were taken to a hospital because of smoke inhalation.
West Coast 911 story source – Silcone Valley Mercury News
You must log in to post a comment.