San Jose: Victim in triple homicide was city housing employee, mayor says

SAN JOSE — One of the victims of a deadly triple shooting early Tuesday was identified by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan as an employee of the city’s housing department, as police continue their for the shooter who violently pierced the overnight quiet of a South San Jose neighborhood.

The shooting was reported about a half hour after midnight Tuesday in the 200 block of Chynoweth Avenue, between Snell and Edenvale avenues, when police were called to the location for a report of gunfire and a woman outside screaming.

Responding officers found a gravely wounded woman outdoors, then went inside an apartment and found two more seriously wounded people, a man and a woman. The woman inside was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other two victims died soon after after being taken to a hospital