San Jose: 4 males shot in Willow Glen early Sunday morning

SAN JOSE — A person died and three others have been injured after gunfire broke out in Willow Glen within the early hours of Sunday morning, police mentioned.

Authorities have been known as to a report of gunshots on the 2200 block of Lincoln Avenue at 2:58 a.m., in line with a social media put up from the San Jose Police Division. That block is house to a hookah lounge, a hair salon and a gasoline station, amongst different companies.

When officers arrived on scene, they didn’t find any gunshot victims, authorities mentioned. They have been later notified that 4 males self-transported to hospitals, the place they obtained remedy for his or her accidents.

One man died of his accidents at an area hospital, authorities mentioned Sunday afternoon.

On the scene Sunday, a cell investigations unit was surrounded by a number of police vehicles exterior the constructing housing the hookah lounge and hair salon. The door to the hookah lounge sat open with a crimson Tesla parked out entrance. Crime scene tape surrounded Grand Gasoline gasoline station subsequent door, the place a white automobile was parked. A second white automobile was wrapped in crime scene tape in a parking spot throughout the road, which a police sergeant famous that they have been holding as a result of they weren’t but certain whether or not it was concerned.

Cops have been combing the encircling streets for proof.

Amy Duong, 21, and Noah Diaz, 21, heard gunshots ring out round 3 a.m. from their condo above the hookah lounge and hair salon.

“I didn’t know it was gunshots at first because I’m not usually around that kind of stuff,” Duong mentioned. “It’s a hookah lounge. People are out there drunk, messing around and stuff. I thought they were just popping stuff out there, or throwing stuff against the wall.”

“I literally woke up in the midst of a gunshot,” she added. “I heard like five, six.”

Diaz added that they may not hear an argument or commotion beforehand.

“It was just gunshots,” he mentioned.

Duong and Diaz sheltered inside their condo till a police officer knocked on the door and requested them to return out, Duong mentioned. They recalled seeing blood splattered on their stairs, and an officer informed them, referencing the proof placards they handed as they walked out, that there had been 15 gunshots fired.

Duong and Diaz have been up a lot of the night time giving witness statements to police and nonetheless had not been allowed to return to their condo Sunday afternoon, they mentioned.

One other neighbor, who declined to share his title, recalled listening to “loud” gunshots round 3 a.m. from his home just a few blocks over.

The block the place gunfire broke out is subsequent to a hearth station and throughout the road from eating places and companies, with a preschool and dance academy simply up the highway. The neighbor mentioned that the neighborhood is fairly protected as an entire, however that the hookah lounge performs loud music late into the night time that vibrates the home windows of his home. He mentioned they don’t typically shut at their posted time, and he typically sees individuals lingering exterior at 7 a.m.

“It doesn’t make anyone here feel safe,” he mentioned.

Duong and Diaz, who’ve lived of their condo for a yr, agreed that the neighborhood is normally “serene and calm,” Duong mentioned.

“It’s a beautiful neighborhood,” Duong mentioned. “It’s just that specific little vicinity, it gets a little chaotic.”

The hookah lounge hosts occasions nearly each weekend, Duong mentioned. She has heard brawls earlier than, however “it’s never gotten to this.”

“We’ll wake up at five, six, seven to go to work, and there will still be some people there, outside in the parking lot,” Duong added.

Lincoln Avenue between Franquette Avenue and Curtner Avenue was closed for a part of Sunday, police added. It later reopened to by way of visitors.

Authorities ask that residents keep away from the world and use alternate routes whereas police examine.

The San Jose Police Division examine an space the place 4 males have been shot in an incident early Sunday morning on the 2200 block of Lincoln Avenue in San Jose, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Space Information Group)